# Microsoft Outlook outage stretches into a second day, causing widespread disruption

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9 outlets covering · First listed: MarketWatch, Nov 13, 2026, 6:14 AM · Read it: <https://www.marketwatch.com/story/microsoft-stock-slumps-on-outage-that-includes-the-copilot-tool-it-has-been-heavily-promoting-4007dc4f?mod=mw_rss_topstories>

The outage could result in a $100 million to $400 million negative impact to Microsoft if the company offers credits and other compensation to customers, one analyst said.

## Who's covering it

In the order they published:

- Nov 12, 2026, 1:03 PM: [Microsoft’s Outlook email hit by new outage](<https://techcrunch.com/2026/11/12/microsofts-outlook-email-hit-by-new-outage/>) — TechCrunch (Digital news, United States)
  Microsoft hasn't yet given a cause for the outage, which is affecting Outlook email users.
- Nov 12, 2026, 5:40 PM: [Microsoft Races to Fix Outage Disrupting Outlook for a Second Day](<https://www.nytimes.com/2026/11/12/business/microsoft-outlook-down-outage-email.html>) — New York Times (Newspaper, United States, rated Lean left)
  Health services, schools, police departments and companies worldwide reported disruptions to their work. The cause was unclear, though Microsoft appeared to rule out a cyberattack.
- Nov 13, 2026, 12:18 AM: [Global Microsoft Outage](<https://www.cnn.com/2026/11/12/business/live-news/microsoft-global-outage-intl-hnk>) — Hacker News (Aggregator, United States)
- Nov 13, 2026, 1:37 AM: [Why is the Microsoft outage lasting so long?](<https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cwvg238zrnm5o>) — BBC (Public broadcaster, United Kingdom, rated Center)
  Microsoft says it is seeing "improvements" following a global outage but efforts to fully resume services are ongoing.
- Nov 13, 2026, 3:13 AM: [Microsoft Outlook, Teams Outage Enters Second Day—Company Reports Progress On Fix](<https://www.forbes.com/sites/antoniopequenoiv/2026/11/13/microsoft-outlook-teams-outage-enters-second-day-company-reports-progress-on-fix/>) — Forbes (Magazine, United States, rated Center)
  Microsoft said a new patch is improving server stability after earlier fixes failed, and added it has not found any evidence that the outage was caused by malicious activity.
- Nov 13, 2026, 5:18 AM: [Microsoft outage live: Outlook, Teams recover as disruptions continue](<https://www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblog/2026/11/13/live-microsoft-struggles-to-restore-services-as-outage-hits-global-users>) — Al Jazeera (TV network, Qatar, rated Lean left)
  After disruption affects users worldwide, Microsoft says some services are getting back to normal.
- Nov 13, 2026, 6:14 AM: [Microsoft Outlook outage stretches into a second day, causing widespread disruption](<https://www.marketwatch.com/story/microsoft-stock-slumps-on-outage-that-includes-the-copilot-tool-it-has-been-heavily-promoting-4007dc4f?mod=mw_rss_topstories>) — MarketWatch (Business & finance, United States, rated Center)
  The outage could result in a $100 million to $400 million negative impact to Microsoft if the company offers credits and other compensation to customers, one analyst said.
- Nov 13, 2026, 6:48 AM: [Microsoft’s massive Outlook outage continues](<https://www.theverge.com/tech/1032862/microsoft-outlook-down-outage>) — The Verge (Digital news, United States)
  Service is gradually starting to recover for Microsoft Outlook and 365 after an almost two-day outage impacting millions of users around the world. While some apps and features are still running in a degraded state, some people (including Verge staffers) are reporting that access to their emails has been restored, though the flow of Outlook
- Nov 13, 2026, 8:52 AM: [Here’s what to know about the Microsoft outages — and what may have caused them](<https://nypost.com/2026/11/13/business/heres-what-to-know-about-the-microsoft-outages-and-what-may-have-caused-them/>) — NY Post (Newspaper, United States, rated Lean right)
  Microsoft said it is seeing progress in North America as the tech giant works to resolve one of the biggest service outages in recent history.
