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Microsoft is still down or not?
As of November 13, 2026, Microsoft is NOT fully back. Services are partially restoring but intermittent failures persist — Microsoft itself has issued no timeline for complete recovery. The outage has been active for over 24 hours, hitting Outlook, Teams, Copilot, SharePoint, OneDrive, Word, Excel, and PowerPoint. Microsoft has ruled out cyberattack and AI causation, pointing to a server-layer configuration issue.
Evidence
- Per Reuters (Nov 13, 2026), the outage is 'easing' but Microsoft explicitly stated it has no timeline for full recovery — servers being returned to service are becoming unresponsive again once traffic load returns, a cascading failure loop.
- The Guardian (Nov 13, 2026) reported nearly 130,000 simultaneous issue reports on Down Detector globally, with impact reaching government services, schools, and Australia's federal police and security agencies.
- AP News (Nov 13, 2026) noted that as of Friday morning North America, Outlook was partially restored for some users, but Microsoft warned of continued 'intermittent access issues and delayed email delivery.'
- Microsoft's own public statement included an apology described by The Guardian as being 'deeply sorry,' suggesting executive-level acknowledgment of the severity.
- An unnamed infrastructure expert cited by The Guardian compared the failure architecture to the 2023 Optus network collapse — a configuration error at the network layer, not an application layer bug.