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Microsoft global outage: Services gradually restored in Europe after hours of disruption across 70 countries

Verified: 107 outlets in 60 countries have reported this story since Nov 12, 9 of them from the United States.

🕐 1h ago·107 outlets

Widespread outage lasted for hours, disrupting hospitals, police forces, stock exchanges and airlines – Some financial transactions were confirmed by fax – Microsoft shares fell 2.6 per cent in pre-market trading – Email delivery window extended to 48 hours, raising concerns about the weekend

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✓ Verified · 107 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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Proto Thema· National ↗El País· National ↗The Tribune· National ↗Financial Times· Specialist ↗isp.netscape.com ↗Times of Oman· National ↗France 24· International ↗

The story so far · 133 reports · · 60 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

Nov 12, 6:48 PM UTCFirst report
Global outage hits Microsoft's Outlook rnz.co.nz ↗
Nov 12, 6:50 PM UTC+2 min
Outlook email outage affects users around the world thenationalnews.com ↗
Nov 12, 7:44 PM UTC+56 min
Breaking: Microsoft platforms suffering widespread outages, including Outlook abc.net.au ↗
Nov 13, 2:39 PM UTC+20 h· you’re reading this
Microsoft global outage: Services gradually restored in Europe after hours of disruption across 70 countriesen.protothema.gr (again) ↗
Nov 13, 3:08 PM UTC+20 h
Microsoft struggling to fix major global outage nationwideradiojm.com ↗
Nov 13, 3:10 PM UTC+20 h
Microsoft Outage Disrupts Email and Online Services Worldwide samoaglobalnews.com ↗
Nov 13, 3:35 PM UTC+21 h
Global Microsoft 365 outage disrupts Portuguese government, health services and schools euronews.com (again) ↗

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cross checkconfirmed90%

[Claude] All three other reports describe the same Microsoft Outlook/Teams global outage, with differing country counts (70 vs 74) and durations that are consistent with one event rather than contradictory fac

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