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Faxes, phones and Bluetooth: Microsoft outage forces businesses to find fixes

Faxes, phones and Bluetooth: Microsoft outage forces businesses to find fixes

What's happening

SignalsMonitor is following this as a conflict story. Dawn, Channel NewsAsia Latest, The Verge, and RNZ are the outlets attached to this story. The first report grouped here was at 12 Nov 2026, 19:01 UTC. 8 material updates are listed in the timeline. The headline in use is “Faxes, phones and Bluetooth: Microsoft outage forces businesses to find fixes”. This note is SignalsMonitor's own briefing, not the publisher's article.

What we know

Old-school technology including telephones, faxes and Bluetooth limited the damage for some people on Friday as a worldwide outage of Microsoft’s Outlook left millions without email. The prolonged disruption, which also hit Microsoft Teams and Copilot, affected some of the world’s biggest institutions, from bankers and traders to shipping firms.

DawnRead at Dawn

Story timeline

Reports grouped into this story, earliest first. Exact repeats from the same outlet are collapsed.

  2. New development reported by The Verge

    Microsoft Outlook is down

  4. New development reported by The Verge

    Microsoft Outlook is still down

Same story, different outlets

4 headlines

Each line is that outlet's headline. The article stays on the publisher's site.