When Microsoft Goes Down: What This Week's Outage Means for Your Digital Continuity Plan
On November 12, 2026, Microsoft 365 went down for hours across the country — email, Teams, Copilot and more. No cyberattack has been confirmed, and none has been ruled out. Either way, the outage is a useful test of a question most offices haven't asked: what happens to our communications, our security program and our household when the platforms we assume are always on, aren't.