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Scottish Government spent £6.5m on Microsoft 365 licences

Rachel Amery — Fri, 13 Nov 2026 16:12:16 GMT

The Scottish Government has also had to convene its resilience room as a global Microsoft outage hits

Microsoft apologises as Scottish government activates resilience operations amid outage

Rachel Amery — Fri, 13 Nov 2026 15:03:37 GMT

Technology experts say disruption demonstrates dangers of over-reliance on one firm’s digital infrastructure

Is Microsoft still down? What we know as global Microsoft outage impacts Scottish schools, councils and health boards

Lauren Jack — Fri, 13 Nov 2026 09:50:53 GMT

Here are all of the services in Scotland being impacted by the global Microsoft outage.

Microsoft works to restore services as outages continue worldwide

Amy Watson — Fri, 13 Nov 2026 07:20:28 GMT

Microsoft users were still reporting disruption on Friday after outages hit Teams, Outlook, Copilot and some cloud services, while the company said there was no sign of cyber activity.