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Outlook and Teams down as company struggles to fix huge global outage

Published

13 November 2026

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technology

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Enterprise

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United Kingdom

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Fusion42 · 13 November 2026 · Fusion42 review

Microsoft is experiencing a widespread and prolonged outage affecting Outlook and Teams, disrupting services for major organizations including hospitals, airports, police, and schools, with recovery efforts ongoing but not yet successful.

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

◆ ◆ The Wire takeaway

Microsoft's outage exposes the fragile limits of cloud infrastructure that powers core business apps. You need to prepare contingency plans now for mission-critical dependencies on Microsoft 365 services.

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56 sources · first reported 12 Nov 2026 · latest 13 Nov 2026

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