Microsoft ‘restarting’ as outage impacts global users, with Outlook and Teams affected

Source: The Guardian Australia · 2026-11-12T21:00:07.000Z · Artificial Intelligence

An alert on Microsoft’s site said it was ‘aggressively pursuing all pathways to reduce impact’ and blamed a server issue Microsoft says it is “aggressively pursuing all pathways” after users reported issues accessing its 365 suite of programs, including Outlook and Teams. Outage website Down Detector showed a spike in Microsoft 365 problems, with nearly 130,000 reports of issues affecting access to Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook and Teams as well as enterprise services such as SharePoint and OneDrive. AI assistant Copilot was also affected. Continue reading...

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