November 13 End of the World prophecy hits Microsoft 365 services instead
Microsoft 365 outage may have affected companies, individuals and organizations around the world but in Tanzania, where few people use the services, its ‘switch-off’ effects remain minimal.
Black News 
Doom prophets have been predicting that the World Would end on Friday, November 13, 2026.
It didn’t, or at least yet.
But the corporate cloud services run by Microsoft were badly hit.
Microsoft 365 outage may have affected companies, individuals and organizations around the world but in Tanzania, where few people use the services, its ‘switch-off’ effects remain minimal.
The cloud office service has been down globally for more than 24 hours and its effects are expected to paralyze businesses for over 48 hours.
Doom mongers who have been predicting that Friday 13th of November 2026 will be the ‘End of the World,’ were rather grateful for this little development.
For others, this is what the world had anticipated at the turn of the new millennium, in the midnight of December 31st 1999 during the global Y2K scare.
The millennium bug seems to have struck on November 12 and 13, 2026 instead, targeting only Microsoft.
It was hours-long outage:
A Microsoft outage that began like a Joke on Thursday, November 12 extended for 24 more hours leaving millions around the world without access to Outlook email and related cloud services.
The Teams meeting tools and other staples of modern office life have been grounded.
Banks, businesses and governments as well as legal courts in multiple countries were also hit badly.
KCB Bank Tanzania officially admitted that its entire communication system went down.
And there has been no quick fix either, with Microsoft not being clear about what exactly could be wrong
The tech giant founded by Bill Gates is struggling to fix the problem, which it said was not caused by a cybersecurity breach.
Whatever the cause, there has been serious global disruption.
Outage reports “reached 74 countries and territories in about an hour,” according to Downdetector.
In the United States, city governments across the country reported widespread email disruptions.
Meanwhile in the United Kingdom, a disruption to the National Health Service email system is expected to prevent some patients from getting their drug prescriptions.
South African businesses also reported problems.
In Tanzania the outage hit mostly international organizations because local entities hardly ever use the Microsoft 365 cloud services or even the Outlook email.
