Microsoft struggles to restore email and other services in a global outage
Verified: 100 outlets in 58 countries have reported this story since Nov 12, 9 of them from the United States.
HONG KONG (AP) — From Asia to the U.S., Microsoft’s outage involving services like Outlook and Teams has dragged on for hours, with the tech giant struggling to restore services which are critical to the day-to-day functions of governments, schools and businesses around the world.
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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
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, 12:59 PM UTC+18 hMicrosoft struggles as outage hits Outlook, Teams, Copilot worldwidedailysabah.com ↗
- Nov 13, 1:11 PM UTC+18 h· you’re reading thisMicrosoft struggles to restore email and other services in a global outagetribune242.com ↗
- Nov 13, 1:11 PM UTC+18 hMicrosoft admite fallos en sus servidores tras caída mundialdiariolibre.com ↗
- Nov 13, 1:19 PM UTC+19 hTechbytes: Microsoft outage disrupts bank email services in Zambiazambiamonitor.com ↗
[Claude] All three reports describe the same global Microsoft Outlook and Teams outage, with no conflicting facts.
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