The icons for a range of Microsoft apps, including Microsoft Outlook, seen on a laptop, in London, England, on Nov. 13, 2026. —Yui Mok—Getty Images An outage affecting Microsoft services including Outlook, Teams, and Copilot has stretched into a second day, leaving businesses and governments around the world struggling to access email communications.

As of Friday midday ET, almost 24 hours since the outage was first reported, Microsoft said it was observing "signs of sustained recovery" across its services, with email queues "approaching normal levels." Full recovery efforts continued.

The company reported "no evidence of malicious activity…

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