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Almost 20,000 reports a minute as Microsoft hit by widespread outage

Live11 min ago

Newsrooms: 28
Last 3 hours: 15 reports
Momentum: Slowing

Reports per hour, last 24 hours

How the coverage splits

58%16%26%

Against the past week

More newsrooms than 99% of the past week’s 4241 stories, and number 19 of 1989 in News.

Why it’s moving

New angleNewsrooms started saying “Teams” 6 hr ago.

Microsoft says servers unexpectedly went offline, disrupting Outlook email, Teams, Copilot and other services.

The Sydney Morning Herald didn’t include a summary, so this is Al Jazeera’s, from its report on the same story.³

Background: Microsoft

Microsoft Corporation is an American multinational technology conglomerate headquartered in Redmond, Washington. The company became influential in the rise of personal computers through software like Windows and has since expanded into areas such as Internet services, cloud computing, artificial intelligence and video gaming among others.⁴

Read the full story at The Sydney Morning Herald

The story so far

28 newsrooms

Reports: 50
Newsrooms and sources: 28
Last 3 hours: 15
Last 24 hours

First with it: Metro, 24 min before anyone else.

Reported by 28 newsrooms.

Counted as one newsroom each, because they ran the same copy: The West Australian, PerthNow, 7NEWS, The Nightly, Canberra CityNews (all Seven West Media); The Sydney Morning Herald, The Age, Brisbane Times, WAtoday (all Nine).

Time	Newsroom	Total
4:55am AEDT	Metro	1
5:19am AEDT	Hindustan Times	2
5:28am AEDT	Daily Mail	3
5:32am AEDT	CNA	4
5:37am AEDT	Deadline	5
5:39am AEDT	Variety	6
5:44am AEDT	RNZ	7
5:54am AEDT	9to5Mac	8
7:28am AEDT	iTnews	9
7:34am AEDT	The West Australian	10
7:44am AEDT	The Mirror	11
7:46am AEDT	The Sydney Morning Herald	12
7:57am AEDT	CNBC	13
8:03am AEDT	Al Jazeera	14
8:14am AEDT	The Guardian	15
8:15am AEDT	Mashable	16
8:30am AEDT	SBS News	17
8:49am AEDT	The New York Times	18
9:05am AEDT	Startup Daily	19
9:08am AEDT	The Times of India	20
9:09am AEDT	Happy Mag	21
9:18am AEDT	The Straits Times	22
9:49am AEDT	Washington Examiner	23
10:06am AEDT	The Register	24
10:20am AEDT	The Canberra Times	25
11:13am AEDT	Business News	26
12:26pm AEDT	The Conversation	27
12:52pm AEDT	Le Monde	28

Time	Source	Total
4:55am AEDT	Metro	1
5:19am AEDT	Hindustan Times	2
5:28am AEDT	Daily Mail	3
5:32am AEDT	CNA	4
5:37am AEDT	Deadline	5
5:39am AEDT	Variety	6
5:44am AEDT	RNZ	7
5:54am AEDT	9to5Mac	8
7:28am AEDT	iTnews	9
7:34am AEDT	The West Australian	10
7:34am AEDT	PerthNow	11
7:44am AEDT	The Mirror	12
7:46am AEDT	The Sydney Morning Herald	13
7:46am AEDT	The Age	14
7:46am AEDT	Brisbane Times	15
7:46am AEDT	WAtoday	16
7:57am AEDT	CNBC	17
8:03am AEDT	Al Jazeera	18
8:14am AEDT	The Guardian	19
8:15am AEDT	Mashable	20
8:30am AEDT	SBS News	21
8:49am AEDT	The New York Times	22
8:53am AEDT	7NEWS	23
9:03am AEDT	RNZ	24
9:05am AEDT	Startup Daily	25
9:08am AEDT	The Times of India	26
9:09am AEDT	Happy Mag	27
9:18am AEDT	The Straits Times	28
9:49am AEDT	Washington Examiner	29
9:56am AEDT	The Sydney Morning Herald	30
9:56am AEDT	The Age	31
9:56am AEDT	Brisbane Times	32
9:56am AEDT	WAtoday	33
10:06am AEDT	The Register	34
10:20am AEDT	The Canberra Times	35
11:13am AEDT	Business News	36
11:14am AEDT	The Nightly	37
11:14am AEDT	The West Australian	38
11:20am AEDT	The West Australian	39
11:20am AEDT	PerthNow	40
11:27am AEDT	The Sydney Morning Herald	41
11:40am AEDT	Canberra CityNews	42
11:58am AEDT	The Times of India	43
12:26pm AEDT	The Conversation	44
12:52pm AEDT	Le Monde	45
12:57pm AEDT	CNA	46
1:33pm AEDT	The Sydney Morning Herald	47
1:33pm AEDT	The Age	48
1:33pm AEDT	Brisbane Times	49
1:33pm AEDT	WAtoday	50

Almost 20,000 reports a minute as Microsoft hit by widespread outage

Background: Microsoft

The story so far

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Almost 20,000 reports a minute as Microsoft hit by widespread outage

Background: Microsoft

Where the coverage is from

How it spread

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Sources and credits

Two headlines

Newsrooms on it each counted once

Every report follow-ups included

How the coverage changed

Every report, in order

In this story

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