Microsoft says global outage is over after more than 24 hours of disruption

Microsoft has declared an end to a worldwide outage that disrupted its online services for more than a day, saying every affected service is working normally again. The announcement was carried in brief alerts by the Israeli news outlets Ynet and N12, and in fuller reports by The Times of Israel and The Jerusalem Post.

According to The Times of Israel, the company said Teams, Outlook, Copilot and other applications had fully recovered, ending a disruption that hampered online communication for businesses and governments for over 24 hours. Microsoft wrote on X that it had finished work on the underlying problem and had "restored service to the remaining impacted customers and regions."

Which services were hit

The reports name three Microsoft products in particular. Outlook is the company's email and calendar service, Teams is its workplace messaging and video meeting platform, and Copilot is its artificial intelligence assistant. The Times of Israel said other applications were also affected but did not list them. Because these tools are used by large organisations to communicate internally and with the public, an outage of this length reaches well beyond individual users.

The Jerusalem Post reported that government agencies in Australia, Japan and the US were among those affected. Neither English-language report gave a count of affected customers or organisations.

What Microsoft said

Microsoft communicated through its official account on X. A post dated November 13, 2026, at 4:40 PM, quoted in The Times of Israel, offered an apology to customers and partners, said the company was "deeply sorry" for the disruption and reported "broad recovery and stability" across its services. In that post the company described the cause as a technical issue.

The Jerusalem Post also reported that Microsoft apologised and attributed the outage to a technical issue. The available text of that report is cut off partway through the sentence explaining what the issue was not, so the full characterisation cannot be confirmed from the material.

How the reports differ on timing

The accounts were published at different moments and reflect different stages of the recovery. The Jerusalem Post headline describes Outlook, Teams and Copilot as still recovering. The Times of Israel, publishing later, said services had fully recovered. The Hebrew alerts from Ynet and N12 state that the outage is over.

Microsoft's own messages also moved in stages: the post on November 13 spoke of broad recovery, while the later statement said remaining customers and regions had been brought back. The reports do not give a single time at which the outage ended.

How it was reported in Israel

In Israel the news first arrived through the Telegram alert channels of two of the country's main news organisations. Ynet, the website of the daily Yedioth Ahronoth, posted that Microsoft had announced the end of the global fault and a return to full operation of all services. N12, the news division of Israel's Channel 12, ran the item through its foreign desk, saying the company had announced that the services damaged by the fault were back in operation. N12 then issued a lightly edited version of the same alert within a minute.

None of the Israeli reports described any specific impact on users, businesses or government offices in Israel.

What the reports do not say

• Microsoft has not been quoted giving a detailed explanation of the technical issue, and the one report that addresses what the cause was not is truncated.
• No report states when the outage began or exactly when the last services came back.
• No figures are given for the number of customers, organisations or countries affected beyond the government agencies in Australia, Japan and the US named by The Jerusalem Post.
• None of the reports says whether Israeli users or institutions were affected.
• No report mentions compensation for customers or steps Microsoft will take to prevent a recurrence.