Microsoft’s massive Outlook outage might be over
A Microsoft outage on Thursday and Friday affected users of services like Outlook, Teams and 365.
Key points
- Governments, businesses, individuals were disrupted globally as server failures stretch into second day.
- While some apps and features are still running in a degraded state on Friday morning, some people (including Verge staffers) reported that access to their emails had been restored, though the flow of Outlook mail might be delayed.
- Just before noon on Friday, Microsoft said it's seeing "broad recovery," and that the problem "was a technical issue not related to cyber or AI / agents." Microsoft: We are deeply sorry for the disruption this incident has caused our customers and partners.
A Microsoft outage is affecting services including Teams, Outlook and AI software Copilot.
Service is recovering for Microsoft Outlook and 365 after an almost two-day outage impacting millions of users around the world.
Additional details
- We know the trust they plac … Read the full story at The Verge.
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Al JazeeraNovember 13, 2026, 8:16 PM UTC →
CNBCNovember 13, 2026, 6:18 PM UTC →
The VergeNovember 13, 2026, 4:17 PM UTC →
BBC WorldNovember 13, 2026, 11:43 AM UTC →
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