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Microsoft 'deeply sorry' for multi-day outage affecting customers worldwide
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Fusion42 · 13 November 2026 · Fusion42 review
Microsoft experienced a global outage affecting services like Outlook, Teams, and Copilot starting November 12, impacting businesses, governments, airlines, and hospitals across continents. The outage was due to a technical issue during a network capacity upgrade and is not related to AI agents; services are now gradually being restored.
This Wire brief sits within Fusion42's coverage of Enterprise Software, and 56 sources have reported it between 12 Nov 2026 and 13 Nov 2026.
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Centralised cloud dependencies just showed their risk with a major Microsoft failure. You must assess your reliance on single providers and consider diversification or decentralised alternatives urgently.
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56 sources · first reported 12 Nov 2026 · latest 13 Nov 2026
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