GoKawiilMicrosoft 365 outage stretches into second day, affecting Outlook, Teams, Copilot
A Microsoft 365 outage that began Thursday continued into Friday, disrupting Outlook, Teams and Copilot for schools, courts, governments and businesses worldwide. Microsoft said early fixes did not work as expected but reported 'sustained improvements' by Friday morning, attributing the problem to servers failing automated health checks and overloading remaining infrastructure rather than a traffic spike.
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The prolonged outage underscores how dependent critical institutions—courts, schools, law enforcement—have become on a handful of cloud providers, meaning a single technical failure can ripple across unrelated sectors globally. Microsoft's own explanation suggests the fault stemmed from internal infrastructure health-check failures rather than external demand, which could raise questions about resilience in its data center architecture.
- Microsoft 365 services including Outlook, Teams and Copilot were disrupted for over a day.
- Microsoft linked the issue to servers failing health checks and overloading remaining infrastructure, not a traffic surge.
- The outage highlights global reliance on a few major tech providers for essential institutional operations.
Source: wired.com — Lily Hay Newman, 2026-11-13
Published there as: “The Microsoft Outage Is a Warning for the World”
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