Microsoft outage takes down Outlook, Teams and 365 services worldwide

Microsoft's own accounting of the Nov 12 outage, delivered through its status updates on X and to news outlets, is the primary record, and it is still changing. As of the early hours of Nov 13 the company was telling customers it was seeing "positive results" restoring service, warning that some restored functions "can become unresponsive again," and saying customers "in any region" could still be affected (Microsoft via BBC, updated Nov 13). There was no indication the outage was a cyber-attack, the BBC reported, and Microsoft attributed it to "a number of servers being unexpectedly unavailable" that strained the remaining infrastructure (Microsoft post, Nov 12).

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