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'I feel it's a sign of what's to come': Office workers on Microsoft outage

BBC News •
November 13, 2026 • 10:16 AM
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Insurance brokers tell Nicky Campbell how their jobs are completely disrupted by the Microsoft outage.

'I feel it's a sign of what's to come': Office workers on Microsoft outage

Microsoft users across the world are being affected by an outage to tools like Outlook, Teams and Copilot.

With more than 430 million people known to use the Microsoft product, the side effects will be far reaching.

BBC Radio 5 Live's Nicky Campbell spoke to two insurance brokers in London, who shared how their jobs had been interuppted by the outage.

Read more: What we know about the outage.

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