PC Gamer reports Microsoft's deep apology for the global outage that began November 12, 2026, disrupting Microsoft 365 for governments, hospitals, schools, and businesses, with the company quoting that it was "a technical issue not related to cyber or AI / agents" introduced during a network capacity upgrade. Writer Lincoln Carpenter notes speculation blamed vibe-coding, and muses whether laid-off employees might have prevented it, amid Microsoft's layoffs of thousands across 2023–2026.