Is Outlook down? Widespread outage hits Microsoft and OpenAI
Verified: 40 outlets in 28 countries have reported this story since Nov 12, 2 of them from New Zealand.
‘We're aggressively pursuing all pathways to reduce impact,’ Microsoft said in a statement
How sure are we
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
2 outlets from New Zealand, where the story is: 1News, RNZ · 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, 4:42 AM UTC+10 hNetNewsLedger - Microsoft Outlook outage disrupts email and Microsoft 365 services worldwidenetnewsledger.com ↗
- Nov 13, 4:46 AM UTC+10 h· you’re reading thisIs Outlook down? Widespread outage hits Microsoft and OpenAIindependent.co.uk (again) ↗
- Nov 13, 4:46 AM UTC+10 hGlobal outage hits Microsoft Outlookjapantoday.com ↗
- Nov 13, 4:49 AM UTC+10 hGlobal disruption hits Microsoft Teams, Outlook and Copilotenglish.onlinekhabar.com ↗
[Claude] All three other reports describe the same Outlook outage that Report 1 covers, with no conflicting facts about it.
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