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Nov 13, 2026

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, 20268 sources

Top claims

▪Shipping operator Maersk warned customers during the November 13, 2026 Microsoft outage that emails were delayed and advised clients to call local offices to confirm urgent requests
▪Municipal governments across North America, including the cities of Austin, Jacksonville, and Baltimore, experienced disruption to email and administrative services during the November 2026 Microsoft outage
▪Financial institutions in Taiwan reverted to using paper fax machines and telephone calls to execute and confirm short-term bill transactions during the Nov. 12, 2026 Microsoft 365 email outage

Topics

Computing infrastructure Microsoft U.S. House of Representatives Microsoft Copilot OpenAI AI agent problems Cloud Computing

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