Microsoft global outage disrupts Outlook, Teams and Copilot in 74 countries

Microsoft experienced a global outage disrupting Outlook, Teams, Copilot, and Microsoft 365 services across 74 countries, impacting governments, healthcare, banks, airlines, and millions of users. Recovery efforts showed limited progress initially but improved later with infrastructure restarts, software patches, and traffic optimisation, while the root cause remains undisclosed.

This Wire brief sits within Fusion42's coverage of Enterprise Software and Cloud Infrastructure, and 56 sources have reported it between 12 Nov 2026 and 13 Nov 2026.