Share to ClassroomMicrosoft Outage Stops Email and Teams
On 12 November, Microsoft 365 stopped working around the world. It includes Outlook for email and Teams for online meetings. People sent nearly 130,000 problem reports from 74 countries. More than 430 million people use these programs. Services started to come back on Friday, almost a day later.
This problem is called an outage. Microsoft says a technical mistake caused it. It was not an attack. In the UK, police asked people to phone them. One pharmacy could not get emails from a hospital. So someone drove to the hospital to collect papers. A pharmacy leader said it was like 20 years ago.
Microsoft said it was "deeply sorry". Many people made jokes about the problem. One US police team joked that their email was "working again". Maybe some workers enjoyed a day without email. But one company boss says we depend a lot on a few big tech companies.
