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The Microsoft outage that hit Outlook, Teams and Copilot was the biggest service outage recorded by DownDetector in 2026, Mashable reports, citing a report from Ookla and DownDetector. It logged 7.4 million user reports, against 2.8 million for the year’s second-largest outage, affecting YouTube.
Why it mattersDownDetector recorded a peak of 19,650 reports per minute for Microsoft’s services. That is a measure of user reports, not a count of confirmed failures, and the service’s figures can be disputed. Still, it puts a striking scale on the disruption: the cloud’s bad day had a very busy complaints desk.
Discuss: Should outage rankings based on user reports be treated as a useful measure of impact, or are they too noisy to compare reliably?
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