Friday, 13 November, 2026
Digital Gridlock: Massive Microsoft Outage Halts Global Workdays
By TechShots Studio
A widespread Microsoft outage dragged on for over five hours, knocking Outlook, Teams, and Copilot offline for businesses worldwide. Downdetector logged over 138,000 peak Outlook failure reports, with disruptions also spilling over into third-party AI integrations for OpenAI and Anthropic. Microsoft attributed the crash to unexpectedly unavailable servers and began gradually restoring affected infrastructure while investigating the root cause.
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