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Microsoft restores service to Outlook and Teams after global outage

Verified: 146 outlets in 78 countries have reported this story since Nov 12, 11 of them from the United States.

📍 London, GB·🕐 36m ago·146 outlets

Nov 14 (Reuters) - Microsoft said on Saturday that services had fully recovered across Teams, Outlook and its other products, ending a global outage that crippled online communications for businesses and governments for over 24 hours. "We have completed our efforts to address the underlying issue of the incident and restored service to the remaining impacted customers and regions," the company posted on ‌X. Microsoft had said server issues were behind the incident that also affected its Copilot AI assistant, and that it was not aware of any malicious activity, ruling out AI as the cause.…

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✓ Verified · 146 outlets

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The story so far · 213 reports · · 78 countries✓ Verified Nov 12, 7:48 PM UTC

11 outlets from the United States, where the story is: ABC News, Bloomberg, CBS News and 8 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 ↗
  4. Nov 14, 10:50 AM UTC+40 h· you’re reading this
    Microsoft restores service to Outlook and Teams after global outagetech.yahoo.com ↗
  5. Nov 14, 11:08 AM UTC+40 h
    Microsoft's widespread outages caused global chaos, including in the healthcasre industryfrance24.com (again) ↗
  6. Nov 14, 11:12 AM UTC+40 h
    Microsoft says services fully restored after global outagetheguardian.com ↗
  7. Nov 14, 11:20 AM UTC+41 h
    Microsoft confirms services fully restored after major global outageindependent.co.uk (again) ↗
  8. Nov 14, 11:23 AM UTC+41 h
    Microsoft services fully restored after global outagerte.ie ↗
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[Claude] All three are coverage of the same Microsoft global outage affecting Teams and Outlook, with no contradictory facts; Report 2 and 3 cover the struggle to restore services while Report 4 is an explaine

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