Microsoft 365 outage drags on as company observes ‘limited recovery’

Microsoft Outlook suffered a major outage across the world Thursday (November 12, 2026), with tens of thousands of users struggling to access their email as the company said it was working "aggressively" to reduce the impact. Widespread outage hits Microsoft apps storyline 1 The disruption, which Microsoft attributed to "elevated load" on its infrastructure, dragged on for much of the U.S.

workday and also affected other company products such as Teams and the AI assistant Copilot. The disruption went global within a span of an hour, knocking out Microsoft products in 74 countries and territories, outage tracker Downdetector reported.

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