GoKawiilMicrosoft Outlook, Teams and Copilot suffer outage across two days
Microsoft's Outlook, Teams and Copilot services went down, leaving employees at businesses unable to work and prompting some companies to redirect customers to social media for support. The disruption reportedly recurred across two separate days and also affected schools, universities and courts.
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The repeated outages highlight how deeply dependent businesses, schools and even courts have become on Microsoft's bundled software ecosystem, meaning a single company's failure can ripple across many sectors at once. The author suggests, without confirmation from Microsoft, that recent layoffs of engineers may have made such outages more likely and harder to fix quickly, and questions whether affected organisations will receive any compensation.
- Microsoft Outlook, Teams and Copilot experienced outages over two days
- Businesses, schools, universities and courts were among those affected
- No confirmation yet on the cause or whether Microsoft will offer compensation
Source: blog.jsweeting.me, 2026-11-13
Published there as: “Big tech is here to let us down”
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