Microsoft Outage Disrupts Outlook and Teams Worldwide

A major Microsoft outage on November 13, 2026 disrupted services including Outlook and Teams, and Microsoft acknowledged that its fixes were not going "as expected."

Outlook is Microsoft's email and calendar program, and Teams is its tool for chat, meetings and video calls. Both are widely used by workplaces, schools and households, so a disruption to either reaches people in many settings at once. According to Al Jazeera, the outage affected users and companies across the world, along with a number of government operations.

Microsoft publishes its service status on a public Service Health Status page. The page covers Microsoft 365 for business and enterprise customers. It also reported service degradation for Microsoft consumer products intended for personal use by families, individuals and students. "Degradation" means a service is running but at reduced quality or speed, rather than being fully unavailable.

The same status page directs customers who need detailed information about Azure, Microsoft's cloud computing platform that many organisations use to run their own software and websites, to Azure Service Health at portal.azure.com.

Microsoft's own statement, as reported in the live coverage, is that the recovery work was not progressing as planned. Users who need current information on the status of a particular service are being pointed to the company's status page and the Azure portal.