By NBC Chicago Staff
Publication Date: 2026-11-13 12:49:00
Microsoft on Friday morning said it was seeing “encouraging recovery progress” after a major outage affected hundreds of thousands of Microsoft 365 and Outlook users across the globe.
In an update posted at 6 a.m. CT, Microsoft said service availability and email delivery performance was improving “across a growing portion of affected Microsoft 365 infrastructure.”
Microsoft said service in Europe and Japan was becoming more stable, and that service in North America was also improving.
“However, some users may still experience intermittent issues as recovery actions continue,” the post said.
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