Microsoft Outlook global outage repair efforts not going 'as expected'

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Microsoft Outlook global outage repair efforts not going 'as expected'  The disruption went global within a span of an hour, knocking out Microsoft products in 74 countries and territories, outage tracker Downdetector reported.  READ MORE : http://www.euronews.com/2026/11/12/microsoft-outage-hits-outlook-teams-and-copilot-disrupting-thousands  Euronews Next is a future-focused news section covering global innovation, science and technology with a European perspective. Our dedicated team of journalists aims to educate and inspire today’s leaders by providing them with analysis and insights into the people and organisations shaping our future

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00:00A major worldwide outage hit tech giant Microsoft Services on Thursday evening,

00:05but was still ongoing on Friday as the company said efforts to restore them were not going as expected.

00:11The hours-long disruption, which Microsoft attributed to elevated load on its infrastructure,

00:17has hit email as well as products such as Teams and the AI Assistant co-pilot.

00:23Users ranging from companies to governments reported that they were unable to communicate via Outlook.

00:29The disruption went global within an hour, knocking out Microsoft products in 74 countries and territories,

00:36outage tracker DownDetector reported.

00:39In the United States, around 130,000 users reported issues with Outlook shortly after 1 p.m. Eastern Time,

00:46according to DownDetector.

00:48As the outage dragged on for hours, Microsoft posted a series of updates on X,

00:54detailing continued but unsuccessful efforts to restore full service.

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