GoKawiilMicrosoft restores Outlook, Teams and Copilot after day-long global outage
Microsoft 365 services including Outlook, Teams and Copilot 365 went down Thursday afternoon, disrupting businesses, governments, emergency services, courts and schools worldwide. The company spent nearly 24 hours working through traffic optimization and capacity fixes, reporting gradual recovery across North America, Europe and Asia Pacific by Friday morning, though some delayed email delivery persisted.
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The scale of disruption—from the UK's pharmacy prescription system to Japanese firms reportedly reverting to fax machines—shows how deeply organizations depend on a single cloud provider for essential operations. Microsoft's own commentary suggests the outage highlights a broader need for redundancy, since so many institutions lack backup systems when such centralized infrastructure fails.
- Outlook, Teams and Copilot 365 were down for roughly a day before meaningful recovery began.
- The outage affected emergency services, courts, schools and government bodies including the House of Representatives.
- Some organizations, like UK pharmacies and Japanese businesses, had to resort to manual workarounds such as fax machines.
Source: engadget.com — Kris Holt, 2026-11-13
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