Microsoft is down. Teams isn't working, Outlook isn't working. But Excel, the b*tch, is immortal!": social media exploded with memes about the global Microsoft outage

While Microsoft engineers are trying to finally stabilize the operation of their services, office workers around the world — and Ukrainians are no exception — seem to be sincerely enjoying the forced pause in work. On social media, users are massively publishing memes and joking, urging the corporation's IT specialists not to rush with the repairs but to calmly go rest before the weekend, since it's already Friday outside. They say the consequences of the global outage can be dealt with on Monday too — so we've gathered the brightest reactions from the web for you.

The person at Microsoft trying to figure out which cord to plug back in to fix Outlook. https://t.co/0e9RdYyqx5

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Recall that in late October 2026, Microsoft announced a voluntary severance program with compensation payments that will affect about 60,000 employees.

On Thursday, November 12, a large-scale global outage occurred in the operation of key Microsoft services. Due to technical problems, millions of users in 74 countries around the world lost access to the Microsoft 365 package (primarily Exchange Online), Outlook mail, the Teams messenger, the OneDrive cloud storage, and the Copilot AI assistant.

The company explained that the cause of the incident was the "unexpected unavailability" of some servers that had not passed automated performance checks on time. This caused a critical overload on the rest of the infrastructure, although engineers later managed to find a way to fix the malfunction.

The outage significantly affected the operations of government institutions, banks, and large businesses worldwide, and also impacted the activities of leading artificial intelligence companies, including OpenAI and Anthropic.

The outages did not bypass the Ukrainian market either, where Microsoft products are used by many major players. As dev.ua reported, the company EPAM confirmed disruptions with the Outlook email client, although the Teams messenger continued to work stably there. A similar situation slowed down work processes in the domestic telecom sector as well: the IT department of one of the large Ukrainian internet providers warned employees in the morning about the unstable operation of the corporation's services.