29 hours ago
Microsoft outage: company scrambles to fix global issue that took down Outlook and Teams
What's happening
SignalsMonitor is following this as a conflict story. The Guardian Business and BBC News US and Canada are the outlets attached to this story. The first report grouped here was at 12 Nov 2026, 20:46 UTC. 10 material updates are listed in the timeline. The headline in use is “Microsoft outage: company scrambles to fix global issue that took down Outlook and Teams”. This note is SignalsMonitor's own briefing, not the publisher's article.
What we know
Tech firm says it is ‘deeply sorry’ for disruption that took services down and has now addressed the underlying issue What caused the outage and when will it be fixed? Microsoft outage hits UK hospitals, GPs, schools and police
Story timeline
Reports grouped into this story, earliest first. Exact repeats from the same outlet are collapsed.
- First reported by The Guardian World
Microsoft ‘restarting’ as outage impacts global users, with Outlook and Teams affected
- Picked up by The Guardian World
Global Microsoft outage affecting Outlook and Teams users, with company ‘restarting’ servers
- Picked up by The Guardian World
Global Microsoft outage affects Outlook and Teams users, with company ‘restarting’ servers
- Picked up by The Guardian World
Microsoft begins restoring services amid global outage affecting Outlook and Teams
- Picked up by The Guardian World
Microsoft begins restoring services as global outage affects Outlook and Teams
- Picked up by The Guardian World
Microsoft struggles to fix huge outage affecting Outlook and Teams
- Picked up by The Guardian World
Microsoft ‘seeing positive results’ from attempts to fix global outage affecting Teams and Outlook
- Picked up by The Guardian World
Microsoft scrambles to fix global outage affecting Teams and Outlook
- New development reported by BBC News US and Canada
Watch: How a server outage took down Microsoft Teams and Outlook
- Picked up by The Guardian Business
Microsoft outage: company scrambles to fix global issue that took down Outlook and Teams
Same story, different outlets
2 headlinesEach line is that outlet's headline. The article stays on the publisher's site.