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What we know about the global Microsoft outage

What we know about the global Microsoft outage
BBC Business Friday 13 November 2026, 07:37 UTC 1 min read
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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.

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.
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