Microsoft Outage, Nov. 13 -- Thousands of users experienced email issues as a widespread outage hit Microsoft platforms. Several users also reported issues with Microsoft's workplace messaging app Teams, as well as its AI assistant Copilot and wider Microsoft 365 services.

It's been over 12 hours since the the outage began. Downdetector, which tracks service disruptions based on user reports, recorded more than 18,000 complaints about Outlook in the US at 4:30 am GMT on Friday, according to Reuters. Reports of problems with several Microsoft services also came from India, Australia and Japan. Outlook complaints in the US had peaked at over 1.3 lakh around 1 pm ET on Thursday.

Microsoft is investigating infrastructure failures that have ...