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Governments, courts, trains and hospitals hit by Microsoft outage in North America

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Microsoft global Outlook outage disrupts hundreds of millions of users for 19 hours

A major Microsoft outage knocked out Outlook, Teams, and Copilot worldwide for roughly 19 hours, affecting NHS hospitals, police forces, schools, courts, and government agencies across the UK, North America, and beyond. Microsoft said the issue was not caused by a cyberattack.

Nov 13, 2026·8 sourcesComputing infrastructureMicrosoftU.S. House of RepresentativesMicrosoft CopilotOpenAIAI agent problemsCloud Computing
Microsoft global Outlook outage disrupts hundreds of millions of users for 19 hours
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