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PiMuNu [soylentnews.org] writes:

The Register says:

Microsoft's massive M365 outage stretches past 12 hours as its fixes keep failing

https://www.theregister.com/saas/2026/11/13/microsofts-massive-m365-outage-stretches-past-12-hours-as-its-fixes-keep-failing/5309609 [theregister.com]

In Australia, they’re calling it the “Microsoft long weekend” – an outage so pervasive it’s just about made Friday a write-off at organizations which rely on Redmond’s online services, especially Exchange Online.

As The Register reported yesterday, the outage started on Thursday at around 18:00 UTC and saw Microsoft 365 users unable to access email, attend Teams meetings, use cloud PCs, consult Copilot, or enjoy full access to another 15 hosted services.

As of 04:11 UTC, the company said it could find “no indication this is the result of malicious activity.” An update time-stamped 05:46 UTC stated “As of now, we are not aware of any malicious activity that is causing this incident.”

It's also the top story on BBC, in the UK at least:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cq5y10ge3dp3t [bbc.co.uk]

[this last URL may not be very persistent, its the BBC's "live updates" feed. I don't know whether it exists outside UK.]

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