Microsoft Confirms Global Outage Resolved, Rules Out Cyberattack

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Microsoft has confirmed that a global outage affecting its services has been resolved. The company attributed the disruption to a network capacity upgrade issue and ruled out cyberattacks or AI agents as causes.

Why it matters

Clarification of the outage cause and confirmation of resolution provides assurance to Microsoft customers and the broader market about service stability and security.

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The chart totals every SEC-reported transaction by month and share count, separating informative purchases and sales from non-informative awards, vesting, exercises, tax withholding and transfers. Records without a reported price remain included. Only informative purchases and sales affect the conservative sentiment signal.

Recent SEC-reported share and derivative transactions in MICROSOFT CORP.

Insider activity sentiment

Leaning bearish

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0 discretionary purchases · 1 discretionary sales

Confidence: Low

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Insiders	Activity	Description	Shares	Avg. price / share	Est. value	Trade date
EVP, Chief Marketing OfficerNumoto Takeshi	Informative sell	Common StockOpen-market or private transaction (S)	5,000	$531.00	$2,655,000	Nov 10, 2026
EVP, Chief Financial OfficerHood Amy	Non-informative sell	Common StockReported 10b5-1 plan (S)	5,912	$544.2359	$3,217,523	Nov 9, 2026
EVP, Chief Financial OfficerHood Amy	Non-informative sell	Common StockReported 10b5-1 plan (S)	1,393	$544.9467	$759,111	Nov 9, 2026
Chief Executive OfficerNadella Satya	Non-informative sell	Common StockGift or transfer (G)	4,704	—	—	Nov 6, 2026
EVP, Chief Human Resources OffColeman Amy	Non-informative sell	Common StockTax or exercise-price withholding (F)	31.94	—	—	Oct 15, 2026

As filed with the SEC. Estimated value is shown only for purchases or sales with a positive reported transaction price; awards, gifts and similar activity are not assigned an assumed market value. Amendments may change the record. This is not investment advice.

Short interest

Open short positions reported twice monthly; this is not daily short-sale volume.

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Owner	Activity	Change	Shares held	Value (thousands)	Reported
Vanguard Group Inc	Buy	15,955,898 (2.273%)	717,942,580	$376,115,759	12/31/2025
Blackrock, Inc.	Sell	-247,932 (-0.041%)	607,119,181	$318,057,597	9/30/2026
Vanguard Capital Management Llc	Buy	892,799 (0.184%)	486,084,806	$254,650,108	9/30/2026
State Street Corp	Buy	5,062,791 (1.604%)	320,715,997	$168,016,697	9/30/2026
Fmr Llc	Buy	17,822,695 (9.584%)	203,782,761	$106,757,713	9/30/2026
Geode Capital Management, Llc	Buy	2,811,291 (1.482%)	192,443,381	$100,817,238	9/30/2026
Vanguard Portfolio Management Llc	Sell	-1,194,799 (-0.709%)	167,212,842	$87,599,464	9/30/2026
Jpmorgan Chase & Co	Buy	22,800,449 (16.868%)	157,973,965	$82,759,401	9/30/2026
Morgan Stanley	Sell	-773,736 (-0.606%)	126,900,925	$66,480,857	9/30/2026
Invesco Ltd.	Buy	2,598,443 (2.592%)	102,846,333	$53,879,137	9/30/2026
Norges Bank	Sell	-2,028,285 (-1.936%)	102,732,956	$53,819,741	6/30/2026
Capital Research Global Investors	Sell	-75,818 (-0.08%)	94,674,551	$49,598,104	9/30/2026

Settlement date	Short interest	Avg. daily volume	Change vs. previous report	Days to cover
Oct 30, 2026	60,941,334	22,292,201	-7.21%	2.73
Oct 15, 2026	65,674,557	20,635,757	+7.43%	3.18
Sep 30, 2026	61,133,927	23,981,233	-9.22%	2.55
Sep 15, 2026	67,346,414	18,052,501	-9.54%	3.73
Aug 31, 2026	74,451,155	23,419,047	+8.62%	3.18
Aug 14, 2026	68,544,953	33,441,152	-15.70%	2.05
Jul 31, 2026	81,311,791	40,018,336	-11.97%	2.03
Jul 15, 2026	92,373,474	32,422,509	—	2.85

Fiscal quarter	Reported	EPS	Consensus	Surprise
Sep 2026	Oct 28, 2026	4.89	4.71	+3.82%
Jun 2026	Jul 29, 2026	4.74	4.21	+12.59%
Mar 2026	Apr 29, 2026	4.27	4.07	+4.91%
Dec 2025	Jan 28, 2026	4.14	3.88	+6.7%

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