Microsoft's widespread outages caused global chaos, including in the healthcasre industry
Verified: 146 outlets in 78 countries have reported this story since Nov 12, 11 of them from the United States.
Microsoft says it is seeing improvements in its service availability after an hours-long disruption knocked out its platforms including Outlook and Teams. The outage has affected hundreds of millions of people across the globe. The healthcare industry was among those impacted, as Ophelie Jacobson explains.
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Two or more outlets reported this story and its reliability score reached 65%, so WorldPulse marks it verified. That means more than one outlet says so, not that it is proven true.
Who reported it
11 outlets from the United States, where the story is: ABC News, Bloomberg, CBS News and 8 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 14, 11:08 AM UTC+40 h· you’re reading thisMicrosoft's widespread outages caused global chaos, including in the healthcasre industryfrance24.com (again) ↗
- Nov 14, 11:12 AM UTC+40 hMicrosoft says services fully restored after global outagetheguardian.com ↗
- Nov 14, 11:20 AM UTC+41 hMicrosoft confirms services fully restored after major global outageindependent.co.uk (again) ↗
- Nov 14, 11:23 AM UTC+41 hMicrosoft services fully restored after global outagerte.ie ↗
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28m agoMicrosoft's widespread outages caused global chaos, including in the healthcasre industry Microsoft says it is seeing improvements in its service availability after an hours-long disruption knocked out its platforms including Outlook and Teams. The outage has affected hundreds of millions of people across the globe. The healthcare industry was among those impacted, as Ophelie Jacobson explains.
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