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Source: The Mining Gazette

Front Page Microsoft outage hits home DMG affected but not delayed By Gazette staff/Associated Press November 13, 2026 3 min read Mark Wilcox/Daily Mining Gazette The offices of the Daily Mining Gazette in Houghton Friday morning. The global Microsoft Outlook shutdown Thursday, affected the Gazette's systems, but the Gazette was able to get Friday's paper out on schedule. Trending HOUGHTON -- Microsoft said Friday that the outage that began Thursday affected a wide range of Microsoft 365 offerings that interact with its Exchange Online and email services. Services including Outlook, Teams and AI assistant Copilot were reported by users to be down. Microsoft said Friday it is fixing the massive global outage for its popular workplace software that dragged on into a second day, disrupting everything from emails to police emergency calls and AI tools. A wide range of Microsoft 365 services including Outlook, Teams and AI assistant Copilot were affected.

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