Microsoft says the outage isn't from a traffic surge
3 Yesterday 2:52 PM · 1d ago · 43 articles · 10 posts · 5 sources · development 3 of 9
In an update, Microsoft said the elevated load was not caused by increased traffic but by a large number of servers being unexpectedly unavailable, without explaining why.
“determined the elevated load isn't driven by an increase in traffic, but by a number of servers being unexpectedly unavailable”
MicrosoftMicrosoft Cloud and software provider
Satya Nadella Microsoft CEOAWS Competing cloud providerGoogle Competing cloud/service provider
The whole story articlesvideospostscomments the bright band is this development · numbered dots are the others · click one to jump
What was reported 3 claims about this development
-
first by The Tico Times, 1d ago · also XDA Developers, TechCity, Rock, Paper, Shotgun, New York Post, New York Times, Thurrott +28
36 more headlines
- Microsoft's massive outage is finally easing up, but Outlook, Teams, Copilot, and other services remain disrupted XDA Developers · 1d ago
- Outlook and Teams are still not fully back after Microsoft's outage. Here's what Microsoft says and what to do TechCity · 1d ago
- Microsoft suffer system outage affecting Outlook, Teams and Copilot, exec says there's “no indication this is the result of malicious or cyber activity” Rock, Paper, Shotgun · 1d ago
- Microsoft outage: Outlook, Teams and other applications down as company says they've made ‘progress toward service recovery’ New York Post · 1d ago
- Microsoft Programs Disrupted by Outage New York Times · 1d ago
- Outage Disrupts Outlook and Other Microsoft 365 Apps Thurrott · 1d ago
- Microsoft sees ‘early stabilization’ as global Outlook, Teams outage drags on Türkiye Today · 1d ago
- Everything we know about the Microsoft outage as Outlook and Teams remain down The i Paper · 1d ago
- What can I do if Microsoft outage leaves me unable to work with Outlook and Teams down? The Sun · 1d ago
- Microsoft Outage: Outlook, Teams take global hit; attempts to fix ‘not going as expected’ Financial Express · 1d ago
- Microsoft 365 outage hits Outlook email and Teams calendars worldwide Cointelegraph · 1d ago
- Microsoft services outage disrupts Outlook and Teams worldwide Verdict · 1d ago
- Major Microsoft outage disrupts Teams and Outlook as thousands of users affected The Independent · 1d ago
- Microsoft Apologizes for Nationwide Outage; Outlook, Exchange Online, Teams, Sharepoint, Copilot & More Still Down & Not Working for Many Windows Report · 1d ago
- Microsoft outage: Outlook, Teams and Copilot remain down as latest fixes fall short Storyboard18 · 1d ago
- Outlook, Teams and other Microsoft services still disrupted this morning as global outages continue TheJournal.ie · 1d ago
- Microsoft outage nears 12 hours as Outlook, Teams disruptions persist Türkiye Today · 1d ago
- Live: Microsoft outage affects users worldwide, impacting Teams, Outlook and Copilot ABC · 1d ago
- Microsoft outage: Teams, Outlook down; what caused global disruption and when will services be fully restored? International Business Times · 1d ago
- Microsoft services, including Outlook and Teams, face outage globally including India The Hans India · 1d ago
- Outlook and Teams down as widespread Microsoft outage hits multiple services Toronto Star · 1d ago
- Microsoft outage drags on for hours, disrupting Outlook, Teams for thousands, including Singapore users Channel NewsAsia · 1d ago
- Major Microsoft outage hits Outlook, Teams, more Information Age · 1d ago
- Microsoft Outage Hits Outlook, Teams, Disrupting Corporate Communication Seoul Economic Daily · 1d ago
- Microsoft struggling to restore service as global outage affects Outlook and Teams BBC · 1d ago
- Microsoft software, including Outlook and Teams, disrupted by outage The Irish Times · 1d ago
- Microsoft Teams Outage Hits Users in North America Cyber Security News · 1d ago
- Microsoft Investigates Outlook, Teams Outage After Servers Become Unavailable in the Americas NewsCord · 1d ago
- Global Microsoft Outage Disrupts Outlook, Teams and Cloud Services as Company Works to Restore Servers Australian Cyber Security Magazine · 1d ago
- Microsoft Outlook experiencing widespread outage 9to5Mac · 1d ago
- Microsoft 365 Outage Hits Outlook and Teams as Servers Go Offline iPhone in Canada · 1d ago
- Microsoft Hit by Widespread Outage Affecting Outlook, Teams, Copilot Techstrong IT · 1d ago
- Microsoft outage hits Outlook, Teams and Copilot, disrupting thousands Euronews · 1d ago
- Widespread Microsoft outage takes down Outlook, Teams and more MobileSyrup · 1d ago
- Microsoft outage: Microsoft 365, Teams, Outlook, Copilot all impacted Mashable · 1d ago
- Microsoft 365, Outlook, Teams, OneDrive, Copilot, and Azure hit by widespread outage Windows Central · 1d ago
-
first by TechIssuesToday.com, 1d ago · also Variety, PC Gamer, MediaNama, The Sun, Oman Observer
5 more headlines
- Microsoft Says ‘No Evidence of Malicious Activity’ in Global Outage of Outlook and Exchange Email Variety · 1d ago
- Microsoft says there is ‘no evidence of malicious activity’ being the cause of the global service outage affecting governments and organisations around the world PC Gamer · 1d ago
- Microsoft 365 applications hit by global outage for over 10 hours MediaNama · 1d ago
- Everything we know about global Microsoft outage as millions unable to access Outlook email, Teams, Word, Excel and more The Sun · 1d ago
- Microsoft battling to fix global Outlook outage Oman Observer · 1d ago
-
first by New York Post, 9h ago · also Al Jazeera, NY Post
1 more headline
- No emails, no problem? Workers joke about Microsoft outage Al Jazeera · 9h ago
What people said 11 voices · best of 14 · verbatim
-
A
Major outage of Microsoft services like Outlook, Sharepoint and MS Teams. 🙁 https:// status.cloud.microsoft/m365/re ferrer=serviceStatusRedirect https:// downdetector.com/status/outloo k/ 1/n
-
‼️ UPDATE: Microsoft's outage now reaches far beyond Outlook. Teams, SharePoint, Copilot and even its Defender XDR security platform are hit. Consumers can't reach their OneDrive storage or Office on the web either, TechCrunch reports. Microsoft first blamed elevated load. Now it says a large num...
-
S
Worldwide Microsoft Outlook and Teams outage reported. I’m guessing a lot of enterprises are questioning their decision to switch this critical communication infrastructure to SaaS. https://techcrunch.com/2026/11/12/microsofts-outlook-email-hit-by-new-outage/ #MicrosoftTeams #MicrosoftOutlook […]
-
Z
Outlook is down across the world for businesses and consumers, and Microsoft is still trying to figure out why. In its latest update, Microsoft said it's "determined the elevated load isn't driven by an increase in traffic, but by a number of servers being unexpectedly unavailable." 👀 https:// techcrunch.com/2026/11/12/micr…
-
Microsoft's outage reports on November 12 reached 74 countries and territories in about an hour on Downdetector. Microsoft says its Exchange Online incident began at 16:17 UTC. Reports to Downdetector about Outlook began climbing at about 17:25 UTC, 12:25 in New York. By 18:25, reports about five...
-
Global Microsoft outage (apparently). Someone says — “The outlook outage is affecting trains departing onto the network as train consists can't be uploaded from copies sent via email” — I wonder which train network that is? — www.abc.net.au/news/2026-11... [image]
-
T
Microsoft Outlook is down https://www. theverge.com/tech/1032226/micr osoft-outlook-is-down
-
Holy cow, there's a massive Microsoft outage going on. Outlook .com is down, globally, as I understand. Microsoft employees cannot send/receive email as well (plus everyone else using M365) This is very bad given how important email is for comms Postmortem will interesting
-
C
Zack Whittaker “Microsoft said its Outlook email service is currently experiencing an outage, preventing both business and consumer users from accessing their inboxes.” techcrunch.com/2026/11/12/m... @techcrunch.com @zackwhittaker.com
-
The latest update from Microsoft on the outage. This is not even close to being resolved. [embedded post]
-
A widespread outage has hit Microsoft platforms, including Outlook, preventing users from accessing emails. Follow live.
All 9 developments of Microsoft Struggles to Fix Massive Outlook/365 Outage After… →
NewswiresMastodonHacker NewsBlueskyRedditGoogle NewsYouTubeX