# ‘Strangely calming and unnerving’: How Microsoft’s massive outage upended the corporate workday

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4 outlets covering · First listed: MarketWatch, Nov 13, 2026, 1:01 PM · Read it: <https://www.marketwatch.com/story/strangely-calming-and-unnerving-how-microsofts-massive-outage-upended-the-corporate-workday-9a78d000?mod=mw_rss_topstories>

A widespread Outlook outage delayed a corporate earnings report, and left users scrambling to submit their schoolwork or find alternate forms of communication.

## Who's covering it

In the order they published:

- 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, 6:48 AM: [Microsoft’s massive Outlook outage might be over](<https://www.theverge.com/tech/1032862/microsoft-outlook-down-outage>) — The Verge (Digital news, United States)
  Service is recovering 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 on Friday morning, some people (including Verge staffers) reported that access to their emails had been restored, though the flow of Outlook mail
- 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, 1:01 PM: [‘Strangely calming and unnerving’: How Microsoft’s massive outage upended the corporate workday](<https://www.marketwatch.com/story/strangely-calming-and-unnerving-how-microsofts-massive-outage-upended-the-corporate-workday-9a78d000?mod=mw_rss_topstories>) — MarketWatch (Business & finance, United States, rated Center)
  A widespread Outlook outage delayed a corporate earnings report, and left users scrambling to submit their schoolwork or find alternate forms of communication.
