Massive Microsoft outage disrupts businesses, government agencies worldwide

What happened

Workhorse Group Inc., an electric vehicle maker, pushed back its earnings call from today to Monday. A glitch in Microsoft Corp.’s network has disrupted the work of businesses and government agencies in more than 70 countries. Microsoft is a software and software development company based in Redmond.

The bug, which reared its head on Thursday around 12:35 p.m. ET, knocked the company’s popular Exchange Online platform offline.

Organizations use the cloud service to store employees’ inboxes and calendars.

UPDATED 19:00 EST / NOVEMBER 13 2026 INFRA Massive Microsoft outage disrupts businesses, government agencies worldwide by Maria Deutscher A glitch in Microsoft Corp.’s network has disrupted the work of businesses and government agencies in more than 70 countries. Microsoft has still not fully restored its infrastructure.

Deployments of Exchange Server, a version of the platform that users run on-premises, are not affected. However, the outage did disrupt a number of Microsoft Teams and Microsoft Copilot 365 features that rely on data from users’ Exchange inboxes.

Intune, a tool that administrators use to manage employee devices, is also experiencing technical issues. The outage has impacted numerous companies worldwide.