If your Outlook inbox refused to load today, you were far from alone. A global Microsoft 365 outage that began before 11:17 a.m. ET on Thursday, Nov. 12, stretched into a second day on Friday, Nov. 13, locking millions of people out of Outlook, Teams, Copilot and other Microsoft services.

Downdetector logged nearly 150,000 outage reports in the United States at the peak, and roughly 140,000 Outlook reports came in from 74 countries. Staff in the U.S. House of Representatives were among those affected, underscoring just how widely the disruption reached — from government offices to companies and classrooms.

Microsoft says its fixes are “not taking as expected,” and the company has not given an ETA for full recovery. There is no evidence of malicious activity behind the outage, according to Microsoft. As a stopgap, Microsoft extended email timeouts to 48 hours so messages delayed by the outage are not lost.

For Toledo workers, students and offices that run on Outlook and Teams, the second day of the outage means another round of missed emails, stalled meetings and workarounds — checking mail on mobile apps, switching to webmail, or leaning on phone calls and texts until service is fully restored.

Microsoft’s service health page is the place to check for the latest status. We will update this story as Microsoft confirms a fix. Read more from People and ghacks.net.

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