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Watch: How a server outage took down Microsoft Teams and Outlook

Verified: 99 outlets in 57 countries have reported this story since Nov 12, 9 of them from the United States.

🕐 27m ago·99 outlets

A Microsoft outage is affecting services including Teams, Outlook and AI software Copilot.

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✓ Verified · 99 outlets

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.

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BBC World95%
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This report links 19 of the story's 99 outlets
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The story so far · 121 reports · · 57 countries✓ Verified Nov 12, 7:48 PM UTC

9 outlets from the United States, where the story is: ABC News, Bloomberg, CBS News and 6 more · how we count

  1. Nov 12, 6:48 PM UTCFirst report
    Global outage hits Microsoft's Outlookrnz.co.nz ↗
  2. Nov 12, 6:50 PM UTC+2 min
    Outlook email outage affects users around the worldthenationalnews.com ↗
  3. Nov 12, 7:44 PM UTC+56 min
    Breaking: Microsoft platforms suffering widespread outages, including Outlookabc.net.au ↗
  5. Nov 13, 12:49 PM UTC+18 h· you’re reading this
    Watch: How a server outage took down Microsoft Teams and Outlookbbc.co.uk (again) ↗
  7. Nov 13, 12:59 PM UTC+18 h
    Microsoft Races to Fix Outlook in One of Its Longest Outagesinsurancejournal.com ↗
  8. Nov 13, 12:59 PM UTC+18 h
    Microsoft struggles as outage hits Outlook, Teams, Copilot worldwidedailysabah.com ↗
  9. Nov 13, 1:11 PM UTC+18 h
    Microsoft struggles to restore email and other services in a global outagetribune242.com ↗
  10. Nov 13, 1:11 PM UTC+18 h
    Microsoft admite fallos en sus servidores tras caída mundialdiariolibre.com ↗
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cross checkconfirmed90%

[Claude] All three reports describe the same Microsoft outage affecting Outlook, Teams and Copilot, with no conflicting facts.

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cross sourcepending33%

Only 1 source — pending corroboration

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temporalpending50%

Single timestamp

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source diversitypending50%

Average source trust: 50%; Source tiers represented: wire

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wire presencepending70%

1 wire service confirmed

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Watch: How a server outage took down Microsoft Teams and Outlook A Microsoft outage is affecting services including Teams, Outlook and AI software Copilot.

Reliability
98%

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Risk Score
low risk