# Microsoft Outage Knocks Out Email for Businesses, Police, and Hospitals

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6 outlets covering · First listed: Gizmodo, Nov 13, 2026, 11:35 AM · Read it: <https://gizmodo.com/microsoft-outage-knocks-out-email-for-businesses-police-and-hospitals-2000839696>

The tech giant is racing to fully restore Outlook, Teams, and other Microsoft 365 services following a widespread outage.

## 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 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 Microsoft's outage lasting so long and will emails be lost?](<https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cwvg238zrnm5o>) — BBC (Public broadcaster, United Kingdom, rated Center)
  Microsoft says it is continuing to restore services including Outlook and Teams following a global outage.
- Nov 13, 2026, 11:15 AM: [The Microsoft Outage Is a Warning for the World](<https://www.wired.com/story/the-microsoft-outage-is-a-warning-for-the-world/>) — Wired (Magazine, United States)
  Countless businesses, schools, hospitals, and governments have found out the hard way what it means to rely on a single company’s systems to get things done. And next time could be even worse.
- Nov 13, 2026, 11:35 AM: [Microsoft Outage Knocks Out Email for Businesses, Police, and Hospitals](<https://gizmodo.com/microsoft-outage-knocks-out-email-for-businesses-police-and-hospitals-2000839696>) — Gizmodo (Digital news, United States)
  The tech giant is racing to fully restore Outlook, Teams, and other Microsoft 365 services following a widespread outage.
- Nov 13, 2026, 11:50 AM: [Microsoft says Microsoft 365 availability is improving as the outage stretches into a second day, disrupting governments, hospitals, and businesses globally (Bruce Gil/Gizmodo)](<https://www.techmeme.com/261113/p21>) — Techmeme (Aggregator, United States)
