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Outlook went down, then air traffic systems. It’s been a bad week of outages.

Washington Post Tech Saturday 14 November 2026, 18:42 UTC By Miriam Waldvogel 1 min read
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Microsoft’s Outlook email and America’s air traffic control communications system have at least two things in common: they are not supposed to go down. Democracy Dies in Darkness Outlook went down, then air traffic systems. It’s been a bad week of outages.

Microsoft’s Outlook email and America’s air traffic control communications system have at least two things in common: they are not supposed to go down. Democracy Dies in Darkness Outlook went down, then air traffic systems. It’s been a bad week of outages. High-profile outages cap a wave of recent tech disruptions in the United States and around the world.
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