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What we know about the global Microsoft outage

Final verdict announced: November 14, 2026 at 5:00 AM ET

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What we know about the global Microsoft outage

Microsoft has said the outage was not caused by a cyber-security incident, but efforts to fix the issues have so far been largely unsuccessful.

The documented connection: No documented connection · Authority: private

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Microsoft's efforts to fix the issues have been largely unsuccessful.

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