Global Microsoft outage affecting tens of thousands of users
Verified: 51 outlets in 36 countries have reported this story since Nov 12, 6 of them from the United States.
Microsoft is struggling to fix a major global outage of its service that is reportedly affecting tens of thousands of users. Services including Teams, Outlook and Microsoft’s artificial intelligence software Copilot have been affected by “connectivity problems”. The company said in a series of updates on X that it was seeing “positive results” with its…
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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
6 outlets from the United States, where the story is: ABC News, NPR News, The New York Times and 3 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, 6:03 AM UTC+11 h· you’re reading thisGlobal Microsoft outage affecting tens of thousands of userskbc.co.ke ↗
- Nov 13, 6:18 AM UTC+12 hMicrosoft Outlook outage disrupts email services worldwidepostcourier.com.pg ↗
- Nov 13, 6:27 AM UTC+12 hMicrosoft outage hits Outlook, Teams and Copilot across 74 countriescitizen.co.za ↗
- Nov 13, 6:28 AM UTC+12 hMicrosoft works to restore global outage affecting Outlook, Teams and Copiloteconomymiddleeast.com ↗
- Nov 13, 6:45 AM UTC+12 hMicrosoft races to restore services after global outageft.com ↗
[Claude] All three other reports cover the same Microsoft global outage affecting Outlook, Teams and Copilot, with no conflicting facts.
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