Microsoft services back online after outage hit 74 countries
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In a post on X on Saturday, November 14, 2026,the tech giant said it had completed efforts to address the underlying issue and restored service to the remaining impacted customers and regions.
Microsoft has announced that it has completely fixed the massive global outage that knocked its services offline and disrupted businesses and public services across the world.
In a post on X on Saturday, November 14, 2026, the tech giant said it had completed efforts to address the underlying issue and restored service to the remaining impacted customers and regions.
The company had earlier reported a broad recovery for Outlook and other services on Friday, insisting the disruption was caused by a technical fault and was not related to cyber or AI/agents.
The outage began on Thursday and hit at least 74 countries and territories across the Americas, Europe, Asia and Africa, according to Downdetector.
Microsoft blamed the disruption on elevated load on its infrastructure.
The outage affected Outlook email, Microsoft Teams, and Copilot, the company’s AI assistant, leaving millions of users unable to work, communicate, or access key services.