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Microsoft scrambles to fix global outage affecting Teams and Outlook
UK NewsBusinessTechnology•November 13, 2026 at 12:29 PMNational

Microsoft scrambles to fix global outage affecting Teams and Outlook

By Mark Sweney, Josh Taylor and Emma Elsworthy•The Guardian - UK News

Tech firm says there has been ‘encouraging’ progress in recovery in Europe and there is no indication problem was caused by cyber-attackMicrosoft outage hits UK hospitals, GPs, schools and policeMicrosoft outage – live updatesTell us: have you been affected by the outage?Microsoft is scrambling to fix an outage of some of its systems that has caused huge disruption to users, organisations and businesses across the globe.In its latest update, the tech company said it was seeing “early signs of stabilisation” in its efforts to improve capacity to enable more users to get back on its systems, after a global outage affected millions of users for more than 12 hours on Thursday and Friday. Continue reading...

Tech firm says there has been ‘encouraging’ progress in recovery in Europe and there is no indication problem was caused by cyber-attack

Microsoft is scrambling to fix an outage of some of its systems that has caused huge disruption to users, organisations and businesses across the globe.

In its latest update, the tech company said it was seeing “early signs of stabilisation” in its efforts to improve capacity to enable more users to get back on its systems, after a global outage affected millions of users for more than 12 hours on Thursday and Friday.

Continue reading...