# Microsoft restores service to Outlook and Teams after historic outage crippled businesses, governments

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11 outlets covering · First listed: NY Post, Nov 14, 2026, 3:28 AM · Read it: <https://nypost.com/2026/11/14/business/microsoft-restores-service-to-outlook-and-teams-after-historic-outage-crippled-businesses-governments/>

Microsoft had said server issues were behind the incident.

## Who's covering it

In the order they published:

- Nov 12, 2026, 5:40 PM: [Microsoft Says Outage Disrupting Outlook Is Improving](<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, 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, 10:13 AM: [Global Microsoft outage disrupts businesses, schools, governments and more](<https://news.google.com/rss/articles/CBMirwFBVV95cUxOcUFxdl9qYU1KcVQ5UHY5Rll2bHBBTVFmN3VSOTJBYWRTZ3hmUGdMUnJ3dDU4TzFaRzd3MjRMNDdSWGFCaUhaN001ZTVDR0ZEdUh0VTZjUm0xbFBpczZaN0xjYWx0UDVyeUVHcUxBSC1hYnM3WmZ1VXI2bkVGbXR3cXFzZFZBZU9sME1hbDE0ZEx1T1BXcFVXV21pdGF3aW83dnd5Y2V1V0xSRjd5NXlz?oc=5>) — CNN (TV network, United States, rated Lean left)
- Nov 13, 2026, 10:35 AM: [Microsoft services are returning after an outage took down Outlook, Teams and more](<https://www.engadget.com/2316029/microsoft-services-are-returning-after-an-outage-took-down-outlook-teams-and-more/>) — Engadget (Digital news, United States)
  The House of Representatives, health care providers, schools and many other organizations were affected.
- 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, 1:59 PM: [How the Microsoft outage impacted courts and governments](<https://www.axios.com/2026/11/13/microsoft-outage-hits-courts-congress>) — Axios (Digital news, United States, rated Center)
- Nov 13, 2026, 2:16 PM: [Microsoft says services still returning amid widespread outage](<https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/11/13/microsoft-says-services-still-returning-amid-widespread-outage>) — Al Jazeera (TV network, Qatar, rated Lean left)
  Governments, businesses, individuals were disrupted globally as server failures stretch into second day.
- Nov 13, 2026, 3:50 PM: [US Radar Service Outage](<https://www.weather.gov/afc/radaroutage>) — Hacker News (Aggregator, United States)
- Nov 13, 2026, 5:33 PM: [What to know about Microsoft's outage and why it takes so long to restore email services](<https://www.pbs.org/newshour/science/what-to-know-about-microsofts-outage-and-why-it-takes-so-long-to-restore-email-services>) — PBS NewsHour (Public broadcaster, United States, rated Lean left)
  Unlike modern web apps or authentication gatekeepers, email wasn't designed to fail fast, meaning to immediately halt when a problem arises.
- Nov 14, 2026, 1:23 AM: [Microsoft restores service to Outlook and Teams after global outage](<https://tech.yahoo.com/ai/copilot/articles/microsoft-outage-drags-hours-disrupting-233132005.html>) — Yahoo News (Digital news, United States, rated Lean left)
  Nov 14 (Reuters) - Microsoft said on Saturday that services had fully recovered across Teams, Outlook and its other products, ending a global outage that crippled online communications for businesses and governments for over 24 hours. "We have completed our efforts to address the underlying issue of the incident and restored service to the remaining impacted customers and regions," the company posted on ‌X. Microsoft had said server issues were behind the incident that also affected its Copilot AI assistant, and that it was not aware of any malicious activity, ruling out AI as the cause.…
- Nov 14, 2026, 3:28 AM: [Microsoft restores service to Outlook and Teams after historic outage crippled businesses, governments](<https://nypost.com/2026/11/14/business/microsoft-restores-service-to-outlook-and-teams-after-historic-outage-crippled-businesses-governments/>) — NY Post (Newspaper, United States, rated Lean right)
  Microsoft had said server issues were behind the incident.