Outlook outage: Microsoft reports 'issues' with Teams and email

Microsoft Outlook outage updates: 'Progress toward recovery'

Microsoft is reporting "issues" with users accessing Outlook and Teams.

Microsoft 364 meme: Why workers love the outage

Microsoft services are beginning to return to normal after global outage of over 18 hours

The company rules out the possibility that a cyberattack is behind the outages that have disrupted Outlook email, the Teams platform, and Copilot’s AI

Microsoft shares pressured on Friday as traders weigh outage’s impact

Microsoft's stock price was under pressure early on Friday as a global outage for Microsoft web services continued to disrupt email accounts and some other applications worldwide.

Microsoft global outage: How one cloud failure disrupted businesses worldwide

Microsoft outage: Outlook still down Friday morning

Microsoft's global outage, which is impacting Outlook, Teams, and other services, continued on Friday morning.

Workers resort to using fax machines during the ‘Great Microsoft Outage 2026’

In its latest update, Microsoft said Outlook systems were gradually recovering, but earlier admitted that attempted fixes were not working as anticipated (Picture: 2020 Photothek) With emai...

Microsoft 365 had a global outage. We collected the best memes that came out of it.

If you use Microsoft Outlook — or, God be with you, if you're one of the unlucky millions who have to use Teams — then you were probably aware that much of the Microsoft network apparently...

10 ways the 2026 Microsoft outage exposed organizations with no fallback

From sovereignty to schools to a Kent removals firm, 10 lessons show what organizations lost by keeping nothing outside Microsoft's platform.

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

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.

Massive Microsoft outage crippling Outlook, Copilot AI, Teams stretches into day 2 as company says ‘no evidence of malicious activity’

The outage has interfered with the operations of businesses worldwide.

Microsoft Struggles to Repair Worldwide Outage. Here's What You Need to Know

The outage impacting various Microsoft 365 services has caused disruption to governments and businesses globally. Here's what you need to know.

The Latest: Microsoft says recovery efforts are making progress on worldwide outage

Microsoft is fixing a massive global outage for its popular workplace software that dragged on into a second day, disrupting everything from emails to police emergency calls and AI tools. A...

Microsoft outage affects users in more than 70 countries

Microsoft reports progress in reviving email and other services during a global outage

Microsoft said progress is being made in bringing its popular workplace software back online as a global outage enters its second day, disrupting business communications, police crime repor...

Microsoft reports progress as it works to recover email and other services in a global outage

Microsoft said Friday morning that it's making progress in bringing its popular workplace software back online as a global outage enters its second day.

England’s health service triggers contingency after Microsoft outage

England’s NHS activated contingency plans due to a global Microsoft outage, impacting IT services and prompting a switch to paper records.

GPs, police and pharmacies among UK services affected by Microsoft outage

Major airports and intelligence services are unaffected while the government is assessing the impact on its services.

Microsoft seeing "continued recovery" amid major worldwide outage

A Microsoft outage involving services like Outlook and Teams has dragged on for hours and impacted many users, companies and government services

Faxes, phones and Bluetooth: Microsoft outage forces businesses to find fixes

While most reported their core systems were still running, trading and administrative work slowed in places in the latest reminder of how much of the world's commerce, public services and c...

Microsoft is still DOWN: Firm says tools to fix global outage are 'not working as expected' with millions affected as Microsoft 365, Outlook, Teams, Copilot and One Drive all hit

Monitoring website Downdetector first showed a spike in users reporting problems with Microsoft Teams in the UK at around 6.15pm on Thursday.

Portugal government, schools and health services hit by global Microsoft outage

A global Microsoft outage is disrupting sectors in Portugal. Since Thursday it has hindered access to Outlook and Teams, though recovery is progressing.

Microsoft’s massive Outlook outage collides with bad optics—from layoffs and buyouts to confusing updates

If you’ve checked Outlook email today only to find it unresponsive, you’re in good company. Millions of people worldwide are waking up to find that, for a second day, Microsoft’s email plat...

Microsoft races to restore services after global outage

German government says it ‘anticipates a very big impact’ on economy

Microsoft reports progress in reviving email and other services during a global outage

Microsoft is making progress in bringing its popular workplace software back online as a global outage enters its second day, disrupting business communications, police emergency calls, cou...

Microsoft says recovery efforts are making progress on worldwide outage

Here's the latest update from Microsoft.

Microsoft Outlook outage stretches into a second day: What to know

Microsoft said there is “no evidence of malicious activity” as it works to restore access to email and other services.

Microsoft Races to Fix Outage Disrupting Outlook for a Second Day

Health services, schools, police departments and companies worldwide reported disruptions to their work. The cause was unclear, though Microsoft appeared to rule out a cyberattack.

Microsoft says recovery efforts are making progress on worldwide outage

Microsoft said Friday that it was seeing “continued recovery progress,” including “broader improvements” in North America and “sustained improvements across much of Europe,” as well as “enc...

Microsoft reports progress as it works to recover email and other services in a global outage

Microsoft is making progress in bringing its popular workplace software back online as a global outage enters its second day, disrupting business communications, police emergency calls, cou...

Microsoft outage: 999, NHS 24 and other frontline services not impacted

Frontline public services like 999 and NHS 24 say they are still operational - but the Scottish Government has had to set up its emergency response team.

Microsoft outage disrupts businesses, governments worldwide

A more than 12-hour outage of Microsoft Outlook and Teams crippled communications for businesses and governments globally today, forcing some organizations to revert to fax machines and hal...

All the US services and cities impacted by Microsoft outage as officials issue 911 update & jail stops releasing inmates

A MASSIVE Microsoft outage has thrown government services across the US into chaos, even preventing a Colorado jail from processing online bond payments needed to release inmates. The wides...

From faxes to phones, old-school technology makes a comeback during the Microsoft outage

Disruption is the latest reminder of how much of the world’s commerce, public services and communications run on a handful of technology providers

Microsoft scrambles to fix global outage affecting Teams and Outlook

Tech firm says it is making progress in attempts to restore services and there is no indication problem was caused by cyber-attack Microsoft outage hits UK hospitals, GPs, schools and polic...

Microsoft confirms ‘no evidence of malicious activity’ in widespread outage of Outlook

Microsoft said on Friday there is “no evidence of malicious activity” related to the global disruption of its Outlook email service and other Office 365 apps. “At this time, we have no evid...

Microsoft struggles to restore email and other services in a global outage

A series of posts by Microsoft on X suggested its engineers were struggling to get the problem fully under control.

Microsoft reports progress with restoring global outage; email access improving

Here's the latest update from Microsoft, which is dealing with a major outage affecting services like Outlook and Teams.

Huge Microsoft Outage Paralyzes Businesses and Government Agencies Around the World

Microsoft, one of the largest software companies in the world, is experiencing a service outage that started on Thursday and has been affecting businesses and government agencies throughout...