Microsoft resolves global outage affecting 70 countries
Verified: 151 outlets in 79 countries have reported this story since Nov 12, 12 of them from the United States.
Outlook, Teams and Copilot restored after a network upgrade failure disrupted services worldwide.
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
12 outlets from the United States, where the story is: ABC News, Bloomberg, CBS News and 9 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, 5:30 PM UTC+47 hMicrosoft restores services after global outagepunchng.com ↗
- Nov 14, 7:04 PM UTC+2 d· you’re reading thisMicrosoft resolves global outage affecting 70 countriesnewsofbahrain.com (again) ↗
- Nov 14, 9:02 PM UTC+2 dCAIT announces full restoration of Microsoft servicestimeskuwait.com (again) ↗
- Nov 14, 9:27 PM UTC+2 dMicrosoft announces service ‘restored,’ global outage overjamaicaobserver.com ↗
[Claude] The outlets differ: Report 2 and Report 4 are follow-ups on the same outage but give 74 countries versus Report 1's 70, so their figures conflict with Report 1; Report 3 is the same outage with no conflicting figures.
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