GoKawiilMicrosoft outage disrupts Teams, Outlook, OneDrive for hours
A widespread Microsoft outage on Thursday affected Teams, Outlook, OneDrive and CoPilot, with Downdetector logging nearly 83,000 Outlook reports at its peak. Microsoft said at noon that the issue was resolved, but users continued reporting problems into the afternoon, and the company's own status page appeared to be down for a time.
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An outage spanning email, chat and file storage simultaneously can halt routine business operations worldwide, as reported by at least one law firm affected. Microsoft's explanation that unavailable servers strained remaining infrastructure suggests the problem may have been deeper than a simple traffic spike, though the full cause remains unclear.
- Outlook, Teams, OneDrive and CoPilot were all affected by the outage.
- Microsoft's initial 'resolved' announcement came before some users' service was restored.
- Microsoft said unexpectedly unavailable servers, not a traffic surge, strained its systems.
Source: zdnet.com — Radhika Rajkumar, 2026-11-12
Published there as: “Several Microsoft services appear to be down – what we know”
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