Hyderabad, Nov. 13 -- Microsoft services were down for more than 12 hours on Friday, November 13, in one of the company's worst outages, disrupting communications for governments and businesses across the world.

The outage, which affected a wide range of Microsoft 365 services including Outlook, Teams and AI assistant Copilot, left many complaining they couldn't access their emails.

Most employees, on the other hand, were enjoying the "break" a little too much, with social media flooded with memes celebrating the outage.

Many were overjoyed that the outage happened on a Friday, and in the middle of the day, no less. With no clear timeline for a fix, employees quickly switched into weekend mode.

Others were even more happy as the outag...