GoKawiilMicrosoft Teams, Outlook and Copilot hit by global connectivity outage
Microsoft experienced a widespread service disruption affecting Teams, Outlook and its Copilot AI tool, with the company citing connectivity problems. A monitoring website tracking outages reported users across 74 countries were affected.
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Disruptions to Microsoft's core productivity and AI tools can ripple across businesses and institutions worldwide that depend on them for daily operations, underscoring the risks of relying heavily on a single cloud provider. The scale reported across dozens of countries suggests the issue stemmed from a broad infrastructure problem rather than a localized fault, though the exact cause had not yet been confirmed.
- Microsoft Teams, Outlook and Copilot were disrupted by connectivity issues
- A monitoring site reported impact across 74 countries
- The cause of the outage had not been officially confirmed at the time of reporting
Source: bbc.co.uk, 2026-11-13
Published there as: “What happened overnight with the Microsoft global outage”
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