MICROSOFT OUTAGE DRAGS INTO SECOND DAY AS MILLIONS LOSE EMAIL AND TEAMS
Microsoft 365 services remain disrupted for a second straight day, leaving businesses, governments, and ordinary users without reliable access to Outlook, Teams, and Copilot. Full restoration has not occurred. Email delivery is approaching normal levels in some areas, but Microsoft warns that users will continue to hit problems during recovery.
Reports of trouble reached more than 70 countries. Peak user complaints on outage trackers hit roughly 130,000. More than 430 million people rely on these tools. Airlines, hospitals, and government offices reported knock-on effects. Some switched to manual workarounds while the systems stayed down.
Microsoft states it has ruled out malicious activity. The company attributes the failures to servers that experienced elevated load and others that became unexpectedly unavailable after failing automated health checks. Recovery signals are mixed. Asia shows encouraging progress. Europe has seen sustained improvements. North America shows broader gains, yet capacity has not returned to normal and intermittent issues persist. No firm timeline for full recovery has been given..
The episode underscores the risk of concentrating critical daily operations inside a single corporate platform. When the servers falter, large portions of the economy lose email, collaboration, and AI tools at once.
Sources: Morning Brew X post, November 13, 2026; Microsoft service status updates; Downdetector reports; coverage from Forbes, The Guardian, and CIO.