Outlook outage: Microsoft says 'sorry' as service returns for some
Verified: 119 outlets in 68 countries have reported this story since Nov 12, 9 of them from the United States.
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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 13, 5:28 PM UTC+23 hE-mail services restored to Toronto hospitals after Microsoft outage caused some disruptionstheglobeandmail.com ↗
- Nov 13, 5:33 PM UTC+23 hMicrosoft reports progress in reviving services during global outage1news.co.nz (again) ↗
- Nov 13, 5:57 PM UTC+23 hMicrosoft’s Global Outage and Fixes: What We Knownytimes.com ↗
- Nov 13, 5:58 PM UTC+23 h· you’re reading thisOutlook outage: Microsoft says 'sorry' as service returns for somethenationalnews.com (again) ↗
[Claude] All three reports describe the same Microsoft Outlook/365 outage on Thursday, differing only in scale figures (thousands vs. tens of thousands, 74 countries), which are not contradictory.
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