As Microsoft continues to try to fix a huge service outage that has disrupted software services globally, a new report dropped, possibly confirming something most of us could have guessed.
Ookla and DownDetector published a report on Friday afternoon claiming that the Microsoft outage was, by a significant margin, the largest such outage of 2026, based on the number of users who reported problems on DownDetector. Going by that metric, Microsoft’s outage was reported 7.4 million times, compared to just 2.8 million reports for a YouTube outage in February that ranked second among all outages in 2026.
During the Microsoft outage, DownDetector said that it received a peak of 19,650 user error reports for Microsoft’s services per minute, which is more than 1,500 times the normal level. Nearly 24 hours later, users are still reporting errors for Microsoft
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