Microsoft struggles to restore services as outage hits global users

Al Jazeera English •

November 13, 2026 • 11:18 AM

• By Nils Adler,Heba Habib

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As disruption affects users worldwide, Microsoft admits fixes are not going 'as expected'.

Microsoft struggles to restore services as outage hits global users

As disruption affects users worldwide, Microsoft admits fixes are not going 'as expected'.

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