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IrelandMicrosoft apologises for global outage as SBS examines separate disruptions
The bulletin follows the impact on healthcare and businesses, while reporting that the White House ruled out a connection to the US flight halt.
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- 0:47Officials attribute the US departure halt to network router problems rather than a cyberattack.
- 4:02Carolina Peguero reports from Miami on passenger delays and logistical problems continuing after flights resume.
- 6:22Microsoft's global cloud outage affects healthcare, businesses and transport; the report covers the company's apology.
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Microsoft has apologised for a global outage that disrupted millions of users for around a day, SBS News reports, with healthcare providers, businesses and transport services among those affected.
The disruption sits alongside, but not behind, the nationwide US aviation shutdown in SBS's bulletin. According to the report, the White House ruled out a connection between the Microsoft problems and the telecommunications failure that stopped aircraft departures.
That distinction matters in a broadcast showing the consequences of both failures. SBS's Microsoft coverage moves beyond office software to the services that depend on cloud systems, with contributions from GP Dr Ben Saw and National Pharmacy Association chair Olivier Picard.
In the aviation coverage, Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy offers a preliminary explanation: "Our routers actually got overloaded with data, and they went down." SBS reports officials attributed the shutdown to network equipment rather than a cyberattack.
Permission to depart did not immediately resolve passengers' journeys. Correspondent Carolina Peguero's live report from Miami International Airport follows the continuing delays and logistical problems after flights resumed.
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- Channel views, last 7 days
- 2,620,483
- Channel views, pace per day
- 439,883 (on a normal day: 355,375)
- Video published
- November 14, 2026
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- 279,425
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