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Microsoft outage locks out tens of thousands of Outlook users worldwide

spiegel.de (German) — November 13, 2026 at 01:01 AM UTC

A major Microsoft outage on Thursday locked tens of thousands of users worldwide out of their Outlook email accounts, with connection issues potentially affecting Microsoft 365 services across all global regions. The disruption also impacted Microsoft Teams and the AI assistant Copilot, with Downdetector reporting nearly 130,000 Outlook problems by 7:00 PM CET. Microsoft attributed the failures to increased infrastructure load in multiple regions and has stopped new deployments while rerouting traffic and restarting servers. The outage extended to AI interfaces from OpenAI and Anthropic, and forced electric truck maker Workhorse Group to postpone its quarterly earnings release to November 16. This follows a similar Azure cloud platform failure last month that caused significant global disruptions.

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