AI & Tech

Microsoft Outlook is still down

A Microsoft outage is affecting services including Teams, Outlook and AI software Copilot.

✦ Extractive summary — built from the sources' own reporting•From 3 sources•1 min read•Updated November 13, 2026, 11:43 AM UTC
Key points
  • Microsoft Outlook continues to be unavailable for people, businesses, and public services across the globe, leaving people unable to access their email, either through the web or apps.
  • About an hour later, the company announced that their efforts were “not taking as expected.” The company […].

UPDATED with latest company comments: Earlier this evening Microsoft posted an update on the outages to its 365 platform noting “positive results with our efforts to restart affected infrastructure and recover server availability.” The optimism was short lived.

When the outage issues were first identified on Thursday, Microsoft acknowledged from its Microsoft 365 Status account that "We've determined a portion of infrastructur … Read the full story at The Verge.

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