Microsoft is suffering a major outage, taking down Microsoft 365, Outlook, Teams, OneDrive, and more

Published Nov 12, 2026, 2:26 PM EST Patrick O'Rourke is XDA's News Editor and Entertainment Segment Lead. Previously, he was Pocket-lint's Editor-in-Chief, the Editor-in-Chief of Canadian tech publication MobileSyrup, and earlier in his career, he worked as the technology editor at the Financial Post and Postmedia. He's based in Toronto. Over the past 15 years, he's written thousands of articles. Patrick has also interviewed dozens of tech industry executives and covered GDC, E3, Gamescom, WWDC, Apple keynotes, Samsung Unpacked events and more. Patrick has a BA in journalism from Toronto Metropolitan University. Sign in to your XDA account This article covers a developing story. Continue to check back with us as we will be adding more information as it becomes available. Summary Major Microsoft services: Outlook, Teams, Copilot, OneDrive and Azure are currently down. Tens of thousands of user reports on DownDetector; some Google services, Steam and AWS affected. Microsoft says it's investigating Exchange Online mailbox access in the Americas (EX1550543). If you aren't able to use any Microsoft service currently, don't worry, you aren't alone. Major Microsoft services like Outlook, Teams, Copilot, OneDrive, and Azure, are all down right now. There are currently tens of thousands of user reports on DownDetector. There are also reports indicating that some Google services are down, along with Steam, and AWS. It's unclear what's causing the outage, but Microsoft seems to be aware of the problem, based on a recent post from its official Microsoft 365 status Twitter account. Given how widespread the outage seems to be, it's unlikely services will be restored that quickly. This story will be updated when more information becomes available. XDA has reached out to Microsoft for more information about the outage.