Microsoft Outlook, Teams outage eases, recovery uncertain
Verified: 130 outlets in 72 countries have reported this story since Nov 12, 9 of them from the United States.
A global outage of Microsoft Outlook and Teams was easing on Friday after more than 24 hours of disruption crippled online communications across businesses and governments, though the company said it still had no timeline for full recovery of services. Microsoft (MSFT.O), opens new tab said server issues were behind the incident that also affected…
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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 14, 12:44 AM UTC+30 hMicrosoft Says Recovery Efforts Are Making Progress On Worldwide Outageournews.bs ↗
- Nov 14, 12:58 AM UTC+30 hMicrosoft services begin recovering after global outagealjazeera.com (again) ↗
- Nov 14, 1:21 AM UTC+31 h· you’re reading thisMicrosoft Outlook, Teams outage eases, recovery uncertainfbcnews.com.fj ↗
- Nov 14, 1:28 AM UTC+31 hMicrosoft Outage LIVE: Microsoft apologises as global service outage easesthehindu.com ↗
[Claude] All three other reports cover the same Microsoft Outlook and Teams global outage, differing only in timing details and emphasis, with no contradictory facts.
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