Kotaku's Lewis Parker reports a Microsoft outage beginning the night of November 12, 2026 has taken down Xbox Live, Teams, Copilot, Office, and Outlook, with Microsoft blaming "elevated load across multiple regions" and saying its fixes are "not taking as expected." Microsoft denies an external attack, while the BBC reports the outage is hitting British hospitals and airports, and Parker calls it a terrifying reminder of how dependent public services are on Microsoft's servers.