{
  "id": 19952690,
  "title": "Major disruption: Microsoft fully restores operation of Outlook and Teams",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/11/14/gro-storung-microsoft-stellt-betrieb-von-outlook-und-teams-wieder",
  "topic": "business",
  "section": "Business",
  "published": "2026-11-14T08:42:38.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Handelsblatt",
    "slug": "handelsblatt",
    "url": "https://www.handelsblatt.com/technik/it-internet/grossstoerung-microsoft-service-komplett-wieder-hergestellt/100269854.html"
  },
  "original_language": "de",
  "account": "Microsoft has resolved a global outage affecting its services, including Outlook and Teams, after over 24 hours. The US software company attributed the issue to server problems, which also impacted its AI assistant Copilot, and found no evidence of malicious activity. The outage, which started on Thursday evening, was one of the longest in Microsoft's history and significantly impacted businesses and authorities worldwide. Hundreds of millions of users were unable to send emails, manage calendars, or hold video conferences.",
  "summary": "Meetings couldn't be properly planned, calendars were down: The Microsoft outage crippled central cloud services. The problems have been overcome.",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 2,
    "also_reported_by": [
      {
        "outlet": "Brazil Journal",
        "title": "Outlook and Teams outage delays the life of managers",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/11/13/pane-no-outlook-e-no-teams-atrasa-a-vida-de-gestoras",
        "published": "2026-11-13T18:30:00.000Z"
      }
    ]
  },
  "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."
}