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No rush Microsoft, take your time: Employees react to Outlook outage

No rush Microsoft, take your time: Employees react to Outlook outage

What's behind this

The recent Microsoft 365 outage, which began on Friday, November 13, knocked out Outlook, Teams and other services for more than 12 hours, affecting users in at least 74 countries. In India, professionals such as a Gurugram‑based marketer saw their workday halt, and companies like ICICI Lombard issued advisories and alternative support channels. Microsoft engineers worked through a second day to stabilise the infrastructure, reporting early signs of recovery while some users still experienced intermittent access and delayed email delivery. By the following day Outlook was described as ‘near normal’, though backlogs remained as the company continued clearing delayed emails.

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Microsoft services were down for more than 12 hours on Friday, November 13, in one of the company’s worst outages, disrupting communications for governments and businesses across the world. The outage, which affected a wide range of Microsoft 365 services including Outlook, Teams and AI assistant…

2 of the 114 reports on this event credit a wire agency (ANI, PTI or IANS), all from the same agency.

Coverage arrived over 20 hours. First from Hindustan Times, latest from Inc42.

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.

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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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  29. 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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  41. 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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  47. 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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  49. The Siasat Daily Siasat Daily Current article

    No rush Microsoft, take your time: Employees react to Outlook outage

    Microsoft services were down for more than 12 hours on Friday, November 13, in one of the company’s worst outages, disrupting communications for governments and businesses across the world. The outage, which affected a wide range of Microsoft 365 services including Outlook, Teams and AI assistant…

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  61. 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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Who did not run this

32 newsrooms ran this event. 11 others published in India recently and did not.

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  • ANI ANI Media
  • Business Standard Business Standard Ltd.
  • Hindustan Times HT Media
  • India Today Living Media India
  • Kashmir Life Kashmir Life
  • NE Now NE Now
  • Organiser Bharatiya Prakashan (RSS)
  • Rising Kashmir Rising Kashmir
  • The Hindu Kasturi & Sons Ltd.
  • The National Herald The Associated Journals Ltd.
  • The Tribune The Tribune Trust

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