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Microsoft scrambles to restore services as major outage hits users worldwide

Verified: 79 outlets in 50 countries have reported this story since Nov 12, 8 of them from the United States.

📍 Mbabane, Eswatini, SZ·🕐 30m ago·79 outlets

-Sourced from Reuters USA – A disruption of Microsoft services such as Outlook, Teams and Copilot stretched into Asia-Pacific business ‌hours on Friday after affecting thousands of US users, as the tech giant struggled to fix server problems it blamed for the outage. The outage hit government agencies in Australia, Japan and the United States,…

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✓ Verified · 79 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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Times of Eswatini· National ↗Winnipeg Free Press· Local ↗The Straits Times· National ↗bdnews24.com· National ↗Jamaica Observer· National ↗CBS News· National ↗
The story so far · 94 reports · · 50 countries✓ Verified Nov 12, 7:48 PM UTC

8 outlets from the United States, where the story is: ABC News, CBS News, NBC News and 5 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, 9:55 AM UTC+15 h· you’re reading this
    Microsoft scrambles to restore services as major outage hits users worldwidetimes.co.sz ↗
  6. Nov 13, 9:59 AM UTC+15 h
    What we know about the global Microsoft outagebbc.co.uk ↗
  7. Nov 13, 10:08 AM UTC+15 h
    'One of the biggest outages ever': Disruption to Microsoft services enters second dayfrance24.com ↗
  8. Nov 13, 10:17 AM UTC+15 h
    Microsoft battling major worldwide outagecbsnews.com ↗
  9. Nov 13, 10:23 AM UTC+16 h
    Global disruption at Microsoft. Outlook, Teams, and Copilot down as attempts to fix not going “as expected”business-review.eu ↗
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[Claude] All three other reports cover the same Microsoft 365 outage (Outlook, Teams, Copilot) described in Report 1, with no conflicting facts.

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