Millions of people were left without email this morning after a global outage of Microsoft Outlook and Teams.
According to downdetector.co.uk, a website that tracks outages on tech and mobile platforms, more than 4,885 users reported problems.
The first outage report for Outlook was filed just before 07:00 GMT this morning, and they quickly skyrocketed to in the thousands.
Users took to Twitter to highlight the chaos, with one saying the problems gave them ‘the worst start to the day’. Others saw the funny side, joking that they now have a ‘day off’.
Millions of people have been left without email this morning after a global outage of Microsoft Outlook and Teams
The first outage report for Outlook was filed just before 07:00 GMT this morning, and they quickly skyrocketed to in the thousands
Microsoft said on Twitter that it had identified a ‘potential networking issue’ as the possible cause of the problem affecting ‘Microsoft 365 services.’
They added that they are ‘reviewing telemetry’ to determine the ‘next troubleshooting steps’.
It had initially said just after 7.30am that it was ‘investigating’ the outage issues.
Microsoft 365 is the firm’s name for its collection of programs and services, which also include Microsoft Office applications such as Word and Excel as well as communication platform Teams.
Another user said on Twitter that the connection in their Teams meeting is so bad it was as if ‘everyone’s using dial-up’.
Others are overjoyed at the surprise ‘day off’ they were given, as the lack of access to the applications left them unable to do their jobs.
One Twitter user said: ‘So what are we doing on our day off now that Outlook and Teams aren’t working?’
Microsoft said on Twitter that it had identified a ‘potential networking issue’ as the possible cause of the problem affecting ‘Microsoft 365 services’
Some Twitter users are overjoyed at the surprise ‘day off’ they were given, as the lack of access to the applications left them unable to do their jobs
Microsoft 365 announced on Twitter that it has ‘identified a potential networking issue’ and is ‘reviewing telemetry to determine the next troubleshooting steps.’
It added that problems may persist with other applications, including Exchange Online, SharePoint Online, OneDrive for Business and Microsoft Graph.
Reports of issues with the Microsoft suite of tools initially came in from India, but now appear to be affecting users worldwide.
An update is expected from the tech giant shortly.
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