Is Outlook down? Updates as Microsoft outage impacts emails, Teams and Copilot
- Newsrooms
- 20
- Last 3 hours
- 20 reports
- Momentum
- Up 150%
8 in the 3 before
Emerging
Reports per hour, last 24 hours
How the coverage splits
Where it’s heading
Still spreading. Likely 17 to 23 newsrooms by 2:40pm AEDT. Calls like this were right 93% of the time. How we knowAgainst the past week
More newsrooms than 98% of the past week’s 4201 stories, and number 36 of 1953 in News.
1Microsoft says unexpected server failures caused widespread disruption across its services.
The Mirror didn’t include a summary, so this is Hindustan Times’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
The story so far
20 newsroomsEmerging- Reports
- 28
- Newsrooms and sources
- 20
- Last 3 hours
- 20
Emerging: new in the last few hours and still picking up reports (20 in the last three hours, 8 in the three before).
First with it: Metro, 24 min before anyone else.
Reported by 20 newsrooms.
Counted as one newsroom each, because they ran the same copy: The West Australian, PerthNow, 7NEWS (all Seven West Media); The Sydney Morning Herald, The Age, Brisbane Times, WAtoday (all Nine).
The numbers behind it
How it spread, where it’s heading and where the coverage is from


