Microsoft apologizes after widespread outage
Verified: 127 outlets in 71 countries have reported this story since Nov 12, 9 of them from the United States.
Microsoft has issued an apology for a worldwide outage of its email servers that left millions of Outlook users without access to their mailboxes on Thursday. The company attributed the disruption to an earlier network capacity upgrade and a subsequent network change. Microsoft stressed that the issue was not related to cybersecurity or AI. It…
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9 outlets from the United States, where the story is: ABC News, Bloomberg, CBS News and 6 more · how we count
- Nov 12, 6:48 PM UTCFirst reportGlobal outage hits Microsoft's Outlookrnz.co.nz ↗
- Nov 12, 6:50 PM UTC+2 minOutlook email outage affects users around the worldthenationalnews.com ↗
- Nov 12, 7:44 PM UTC+56 minBreaking: Microsoft platforms suffering widespread outages, including Outlookabc.net.au ↗
- Nov 13, 10:44 PM UTC+28 hMicrosoft’s global outage and fixes: What we knowsmh.com.au ↗
- Nov 13, 11:44 PM UTC+29 hHow the worldwide Microsoft outage disrupted the North Countrywwnytv.com ↗
- Nov 13, 11:50 PM UTC+29 h· you’re reading thisMicrosoft apologizes after widespread outagenationwideradiojm.com (again) ↗
- Nov 14, 12:09 AM UTC+29 hMicrosoft 'deeply sorry' as services restored after global outage1news.co.nz (again) ↗
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