Singapore government’s Outlook services fully restored after global Microsoft outage

The disruption, which has lasted over 24 hours, knocked out Microsoft products, including Outlook and Teams, in 74 countries and territories, according to outage tracker Downdetector.

A Microsoft Outlook app icon is seen in this illustration taken on Nov 13, 2026. (Image: Reuters/Dado Ruvic)

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SINGAPORE: Microsoft Outlook services for Singapore's government were fully restored on Friday (Nov 13) night after they were hit by a major global outage affecting the tech giant’s products.

The disruption, which has lasted over 24 hours, knocked out Microsoft products, including Outlook and Teams, in 74 countries and territories, according to outage tracker Downdetector.

Microsoft said on Saturday that its consumer products services had fully recovered, while it was seeing some sustained recovery for its Microsoft 365 enterprise services.

The Government Technology Agency (GovTech) told CNA on Saturday that the government’s Microsoft Outlook services had been fully restored since 11pm on Friday.

“We thank members of the public for their patience and understanding,” a GovTech spokesperson added.

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