GoKawiilMicrosoft 365 Services Restored After Roughly 24-Hour Global Outage
Microsoft 365 services including Outlook, Teams, and Copilot have largely returned to normal after an outage that began around midday Thursday on the East Coast and spread to more than 70 countries. Microsoft said the disruption stemmed from a technical issue tied to an earlier network capacity upgrade and a subsequent network change, and was not caused by a cyberattack or AI systems. The company extended email queue times to 48 hours to ensure delayed messages still reach recipients and has promised a full post-incident report.
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The scale and duration of the outage highlight how dependent businesses and governments worldwide have become on a single cloud provider for core communication tools. Microsoft's insistence that AI and cyberattacks were not responsible may be an attempt to preempt speculation, though the forthcoming post-incident report could reveal more about how a routine network upgrade cascaded into a global failure. Users should expect delayed notification floods as queued messages and alerts arrive over the following hours.
- Microsoft 365 outage affected over 70 countries starting Thursday midday ET.
- Microsoft attributes the cause to a network capacity upgrade issue, not a cyberattack or AI.
- Email queue times were extended to 48 hours, meaning users may see delayed notification floods.
Source: wired.com — Andrew Couts, 2026-11-13
Published there as: “Microsoft 365 Crawls Back to Life After a 24-Hour Outage”
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