{
  "id": 19747071,
  "title": "Microsoft Outlook outage affects nearly 130,000 users worldwide",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/11/13/microsoft-outlook-outage-affects-nearly-130-000-users-worldwide",
  "topic": "world",
  "section": "World",
  "published": "2026-11-13T02:43:00.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "The Vibes",
    "slug": "the-vibes",
    "url": "https://www.thevibes.com/articles/lifestyles/129494/microsoft-outlook-outage-affects-nearly-130000-users-worldwide"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": "Microsoft's Outlook service experienced a widespread disruption on Thursday, impacting nearly 130,000 users across multiple regions. This outage coincided with issues affecting other Microsoft products like Teams and Copilot. The technology company traced the problem to overloaded infrastructure in several regions, leading to connectivity difficulties. Microsoft took immediate action, including halting system deployments, redirecting traffic, and restarting malfunctioning servers, to mitigate the impact of the disruption. Despite the efforts, around 50,000 users continued to face access problems as of 4:30pm Eastern Time.",
  "summary": "NEARLY 130,000 users reported problems accessing Microsoft Outlook on Thursday as a major service disruption affected multiple regions, prompting the technology giant to take emergency measures to restore access. Microsoft confirmed that the outage w...",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 3,
    "also_reported_by": [
      {
        "outlet": "The Sydney Morning Herald",
        "title": "Global outage for Microsoft",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/11/12/global-outage-for-microsoft-19722998",
        "published": "2026-11-12T22:56:51.000Z"
      },
      {
        "outlet": "The Age",
        "title": "Global outage for Microsoft",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/11/12/global-outage-for-microsoft",
        "published": "2026-11-12T22:56:51.000Z"
      }
    ]
  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}