
Microsoft confirms full restoration of services after global outage traced to network upgrade bug
Microsoft has declared its services fully restored following a massive global outage that began on Thursday, November 12, 2026. The incident, which affected over 70 countries and approximately 430 million users, disrupted Outlook, Teams, and Copilot. The company attributed the failure to a technical issue stemming from a prior network capacity upgrade, not a cyberattack or AI agent. While services are back online, the event highlighted significant vulnerabilities in global reliance on single-vendor cloud infrastructure, impacting governments, healthcare, and courts.










