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Microsoft 365, Outlook down for thousands of US users, Downdetector shows

By Thomson Reuters Nov 12, 2026 | 12:32 PM

Nov 12 (Reuters) – Microsoft 365, Outlook and Teams were down for thousands of ​US users on Thursday, ‌according to outage-tracking website Downdetector.com.

Here are more details:

• There were more than 130,000 incidents of people ‌reporting ​issues with Outlook ⁠at 1:27 p.m. ⁠ET, according to Downdetector, which tracks outages by collating status reports from a ​number of sources. The actual number of affected users ⁠may vary

• ⁠Microsoft said earlier in ​the day it had fixed ​a Teams disruption affecting users in ‌North America and that the impact had been fully resolved

• The issue may ⁠also affect Microsoft 365 service connectivity for users in other regions, the ⁠company ‌later said

• Downdetector ⁠recorded more than 46,000 ​user ‌reports of problems with ​Microsoft ⁠365, and about 3,000 reports of users having trouble accessing Teams

(Reporting by Harshita Mary Varghese in Bengaluru; Editing by ​Leroy Leo)