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How India Inc navigated the Friday the 13th Microsoft outage

How India Inc navigated the Friday the 13th Microsoft outage

What's behind this

Microsoft’s cloud‑based email service outage disrupted business operations and airline customer support in India and caused problems for public services in several countries. As Outlook went dark, corporate India shifted to Teams and WhatsApp, while many MSMEs reported hiccups and some workers experienced an inbox‑free day and an early weekend. Microsoft said it was making progress restoring Outlook, Teams, Copilot and other products after a 20‑hour global outage that affected more than 70 countries, but warned that some users might still face intermittent issues.

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RSS excerpt

Corporate India turned to Teams and WhatsApp as Outlook went dark; MSMEs reported hiccups while workers enjoyed an inbox-free day and welcomed weekend early.

2 of the 118 reports on this event credit a wire agency (ANI, PTI or IANS), all from the same agency.

Coverage arrived over 22 hours. First from Hindustan Times, latest from The Hindu.

High Corroboration 32 news outlets reporting

How this event was covered

First reported by Hindustan Times at 18:19 UTC on 12 Nov.

Everything here arrived on one day, and nothing since.

Across 4 desks: business, india, tech, world.

All 32 newsrooms, and who owns them

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  17. The South First The South First

    Service stability improving, Microsoft says amid major outage affecting over 430 million people

    The more-than-12-hour outage has left millions worldwide without access to Outlook email, Teams meeting tools, and other staples of modern office life. Banks, governments and courts in multiple countries are affected. The post Service stability improving, Microsoft says amid major outage affecting…

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  25. The Economic Times Bennett, Coleman & Co.

    Gmail to Proton Mail: 5 alternatives for users as Microsoft continues to battle Outlook and the Teams global outage

    A major disruption hit Microsoft on November 12, 2026, causing a global outage that affected services like Outlook and Teams. This left countless users and organizations struggling to connect via email and participate in crucial Teams meetings. In the wake of the Microsoft outage, users can explore…

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  35. Deccan Herald The Printers (Mysore) Pvt. Ltd.

    DH Evening Brief | Microsoft outage continues into second day, hitting services across globe; B'luru Metro crosses 100-km mark as PM Modi launches Pink Line

    ‘Not going as expected’: Microsoft outage continues to hit services across globe; IndiGo, Air India issue alerts Microsoft platforms were hit by widespread outage, including Outlook, with many users experiencing trouble using their email accounts from Thursday. Read more Bengaluru Metro crosses…

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  41. The New Indian Express Express Publications (Madurai) Ltd.

    Microsoft outage means no incessant email chimes or message pings, but still we stayed online

    BERLIN: It was the sound of e-silence. No Microsoft Outlook email chimes, no Teams message pings, no new notifications and, very possibly, no work getting done. Microsoft 365 teetered on the edge of becoming Microsoft 364 as the global outage stretched from Thursday into, ironically (or fittingly…

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  51. TFI Post TFI Post

    Microsoft outage drags into second day as engineers struggle to stabilise Outlook, Teams; governments, companies hit

    Microsoft said on Friday that it was seeing early signs of recovery from a major outage that has disrupted Outlook, Teams and other Microsoft 365 services for more than a day, after fixes it applied failed to work as intended. From Asia to the United States, the disruption affected users, companies…

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  61. The Hindu BusinessLine The Hindu Group (Kasturi & Sons) Current article

    How India Inc navigated the Friday the 13th Microsoft outage

    Corporate India turned to Teams and WhatsApp as Outlook went dark; MSMEs reported hiccups while workers enjoyed an inbox-free day and welcomed weekend early.

    Read at The Hindu BusinessLine ↗
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Who did not run this

32 newsrooms ran this event. 7 others published in Business recently and did not.

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  • Livemint HT Media Ltd.
  • NDTV Adani Group (AMG Media)
  • The Economic Times Bennett, Coleman & Co.
  • The Hindu Kasturi & Sons Ltd.
  • The Indian Express Indian Express Group
  • The Times of India Bennett, Coleman & Co.
  • The Tribune The Tribune Trust

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