World recovers from the day Microsoft stood still

A massive Microsoft outage disrupted services like Outlook, Teams, and Copilot across more than 70 countries, affecting government, transit, retail, and banking sectors, with an estimated $7 billion in global lost productivity. Microsoft attributes the outage to a technical issue unrelated to AI or cyber attack, with recovery underway but intermittent problems possible.

This Wire brief sits within Fusion42's coverage of Cloud Infrastructure, and 56 sources have reported it between 12 Nov 2026 and 14 Nov 2026.