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Outlook & Microsoft 365 Down: Thousands Affected
12 Nov
Summary
- Thousands of Microsoft users experienced service disruptions.
- Outlook and Microsoft 365 were reported as down by users.
- Over 100,000 outage reports were logged within an hour.

On November 12, 2026, a large number of Microsoft users encountered widespread service disruptions affecting both Microsoft Outlook and Microsoft 365. Reports of these outages began surfacing around noon and escalated dramatically.
Within a mere half-hour, Downdetector registered over 12,000 reports. This figure rapidly climbed, surpassing 100,000 reports for Microsoft Outlook outages shortly after 1 p.m.
Analysis of the reported issues indicated that nearly half of the problems concerned the Microsoft website. Additionally, 24 percent of users experiencing difficulties cited problems with the Microsoft application, highlighting a broad impact across platforms.