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Microsoft has suffered a global outage across most of its services which has now lasted more than 17 hours, and cut off services including Microsoft Exchange. Microsoft services are down worldwide - image credit: Microsoft. In October 2026 , a change in Microsoft's Exchange Web Services affected Apple Mail. But now all of Exchange has gone down, as have multiple Microsoft 365 services. According to the New York Times , the first problems were spotted at around 1:00 p.m. Eastern on Thursday, November 12, 2026. By 10:00 p.m., Microsoft reported that repairs were "not taking as expected." Continue Reading on AppleInsider | Discuss on our Forums
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Microsoft has suffered a global outage across most of its services which has now lasted more than 17 hours, and cut off services including Microsoft Exchange. Microsoft services are down worldwide - image credit: Microsoft. In October 2026 , a change in Microsoft's Exchange Web Services affected Apple Mail. But now all of Exchange has gone down, as have multiple Microsoft 365 services. According to the New York Times , the first problems were spotted at around 1:00 p.m. Eastern on Thursday, November 12, 2026. By 10:00 p.m., Microsoft reported that repairs were "not taking as expected." Continue Reading on AppleInsider | Discuss on our Forums
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Microsoft has suffered a global outage across most of its services which has now lasted more than 17 hours, and cut off services including Microsoft Exchange.
Microsoft services are down worldwide - image credit: Microsoft.
In October 2026 , a change in Microsoft's Exchange Web Services affected Apple Mail.
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