The Great Microsoft Outage Has Been Fixed…. Rejoice!
Well… .Maybe not as this was a “backhoe day” for many. And business globally ground to a halt for a day and a half. Having said that, Microsoft has said this:
We are deeply sorry for the disruption this incident has caused our customers and partners. We know the trust they place in our services and take that responsibility extremely seriously. We are seeing broad recovery and stability across our services.
A couple of things. I am seeing things acting “sort of normal” from about 2PM EST. I also sense that this is more of a “please don’t leave us for Goggle Workspace” than a legitimate apology. But maybe I am looking at this from a cynical point of view. Also, you may note that things may still be problematic. But at least they seem to be headed in the right direction.
Finally, Microsoft says that this wasn’t AI (as I am guessing that they don’t want to curtail sales of CoPilot) or a threat actor at work. Basically, Microsoft screwed up. That alone will make reading the root cause analysis interesting.
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The Great Microsoft Outage Has Been Fixed…. Rejoice!
Well… .Maybe not as this was a “backhoe day” for many. And business globally ground to a halt for a day and a half. Having said that, Microsoft has said this:
A couple of things. I am seeing things acting “sort of normal” from about 2PM EST. I also sense that this is more of a “please don’t leave us for Goggle Workspace” than a legitimate apology. But maybe I am looking at this from a cynical point of view. Also, you may note that things may still be problematic. But at least they seem to be headed in the right direction.
Finally, Microsoft says that this wasn’t AI (as I am guessing that they don’t want to curtail sales of CoPilot) or a threat actor at work. Basically, Microsoft screwed up. That alone will make reading the root cause analysis interesting.
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This entry was posted on November 13, 2026 at 3:53 pm and is filed under Commentary with tags Microsoft. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.