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Hours-long Microsoft outage disrupts businesses, governments globally
What's happening
SignalsMonitor is following this as a technology story. Dawn and The Straits Times World are the outlets attached to this story. The first report grouped here was at 12 Nov 2026, 22:18 UTC. 6 material updates are listed in the timeline. The headline in use is “Hours-long Microsoft outage disrupts businesses, governments globally”. This note is SignalsMonitor's own briefing, not the publisher's article.
What we know
A more than 12-hour outage of Microsoft Outlook and Teams crippled communications for businesses and governments globally on Friday, forcing some organisations to revert to fax machines and halting at least one bond repurchase in Europe. Microsoft said server issues were behind the incident that also affected its Copilot AI…
Story timeline
Reports grouped into this story, earliest first. Exact repeats from the same outlet are collapsed.
- First reported by The Straits Times World
Major outage hits Microsoft Outlook; Singapore users affected
- New development reported by The Straits Times World
Microsoft outage drags on for hours, disrupting Outlook, Teams for businesses and governments
- Picked up by The Straits Times World
Microsoft outage disrupts Outlook and Teams for thousands, including S’pore users
- New development reported by Dawn
Microsoft says 'not aware of any malicious activity' causing Outlook outage
Same story, different outlets
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