Global Microsoft Outage Grounds Australian Government and Schools
💡 Why it matters
The disruption halted email and meetings across critical sectors, exposing over-reliance on a single platform and costing productivity nationwide.
A major Microsoft 365 outage on November 13, 2026, disrupted Outlook and Teams for Australian government services, courts, and schools, with over 5,500 reports at peak. Microsoft confirmed the issue was not a cyberattack but struggled to deploy a fix.
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📡 Where we spotted it (3)
The Guardian
‘Looks like we’ll have to talk to people’: Australia sent back to time before email with major Microsoft outage
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BBC News
What we know about the global Microsoft outage
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Hacker News
Global Microsoft Outage
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