Saturday, 14 November 2026
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Policy desk, National Trade News (2026-11-13): What caused the outage and when will it be fixed? Microsoft outage hits UK hospitals, GPs, schools and police Tell us: have you been affected by the outage?… Primary source: original at The Guardian (theguardian.com).
Microsoft has said it is “deeply sorry” for a widespread outage that caused disruption to millions of users, organisations and businesses across the globe – and that it has “addressed the underlying issue”.
The company said the outage was a “technical issue” not related to cyber-attacks or AI agents, and that it continued to gradually restore services.
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