Global Microsoft outage affecting NI schools, councils and other services

BBC Education Friday 13 November 2026, 11:02 UTC 1 min read

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The outage started on Thursday, with monitoring website Downdetector seeing problems reported in more than 70 countries.

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Global Microsoft outage affecting NI schools, councils and other services

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