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Microsoft Outage Stops Email

curiousNovember 15, 2026·100 words·1 min read

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Microsoft Outage Stops Email
On 12 November, Microsoft email stopped working. Teams stopped too. Teams is for online meetings. This happened in many countries. More than 430 million people use these programs. This outage lasted almost one day.
Microsoft says it was a computer mistake. It was not an attack. In the UK, police asked people to call them. One pharmacy needed papers from a hospital. Someone drove to the hospital to get them.
Microsoft said sorry. One police team joked about its email working again. Maybe some workers liked a day without email. But one boss says we depend on big tech companies.
Vocabulary Translations· 6 words · 12 languages

Every definition is context-aware — translated based on how the word is used in this article, not a dictionary.

outagen.

a time when things do not work

sự cố ngừng hoạt độnginterrupção障害kesintiinterrupción del servicioawariaانقطاع الخدمةstoringсбой故障停机장애
onlineadj.

using the internet

trực tuyếnon-lineオンラインのçevrimiçien líneainternetowyعبر الإنترنتonlineонлайн线上的온라인의
pharmacyn.

a shop that sells medicine

hiệu thuốcfarmácia薬局eczanefarmaciaaptekaصيدليةapotheekаптека药店약국
mistaken.

something done in the wrong way

lỗierroミスhataerrorbłądخطأfoutошибка错误실수
jokev.

to say funny things

đùabrincar冗談を言うşaka yapmakbromearżartowaćيمزحgrappen makenшутить开玩笑농담하다
depend onv.

to need something to live or work

phụ thuộc vàodepender de〜に頼る-e bağlı olmakdepender dezależeć odيعتمد علىafhankelijk zijn vanзависеть от依赖~에 의존하다

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