Microsoft’s latest email outage turned into a full blown global cloud crisis

TechCrunch - Nov 13, 2026

Microsoft's day-long outage began with Outlook and Teams, and ended up taking much of the company's cloud services offline. Microsoft says it's gradually restoring service.

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