'One of the biggest outages ever': Disruption to Microsoft services enters second day
Verified: 79 outlets in 50 countries have reported this story since Nov 12, 8 of them from the United States.
An outage of Microsoft services such as Outlook, Teams and Copilot that began on Thursday continued to cause disruption to users around the world on Friday as the tech giant struggled to fix server problems it blamed for the problems. France 24’s tech correspondent Peter O’Brien takes a look at what we know about the outage which, given its scale and duration, makes it one of the “biggest ever”, he says.
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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
8 outlets from the United States, where the story is: ABC News, CBS News, NBC News and 5 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, 9:59 AM UTC+15 hWhat we know about the global Microsoft outagebbc.co.uk ↗
- Nov 13, 10:08 AM UTC+15 h· you’re reading this'One of the biggest outages ever': Disruption to Microsoft services enters second dayfrance24.com ↗
- Nov 13, 10:17 AM UTC+15 hMicrosoft battling major worldwide outagecbsnews.com ↗
- Nov 13, 10:23 AM UTC+16 hGlobal disruption at Microsoft. Outlook, Teams, and Copilot down as attempts to fix not going “as expected”business-review.eu ↗
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28m ago'One of the biggest outages ever': Disruption to Microsoft services enters second day An outage of Microsoft services such as Outlook, Teams and Copilot that began on Thursday continued to cause disruption to users around the world on Friday as the tech giant struggled to fix server problems it blamed for the problems. France 24’s tech correspondent Peter O’Brien takes a look at what we know about the outage which, given its scale and duration, makes it one of the “biggest ever”, he says.
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