A woman tries to access her Microsoft Hotmail email inbox on a phoneImage source, Press Association
ByPatrick Jackson
  • Published13 November 2026, 11:05 GMT
Updated 33 minutes ago

At least 74 countries have been affected by the Microsoft outage since it was detected after midday US Eastern Time (17:00 GMT) on Thursday.

Microsoft 365 Services, including Teams, Outlook and artificial intelligence software Copilot, are experiencing "connectivity problems", the company said.

From city governments in the US to Australian spy agencies, disruption has been widespread. Here's what's been happening around the world.