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Greg Evans
Jan 25, 2023
Teams and Outlook down for thousands of Microsoft users
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Microsoft has been hit by a huge server outage and the internet cannot cope.
The incident which occurred early on Wednesday morning reportedly affected Xbox Live, Microsoft Teams, Outlook and Microsoft Azure, the company's cloud-computing software which is likely to affect other machines and services that don't appear to be linked to Microsoft.
Microsoft 365's Twitter account confirmed the issue tweeting that they had "identified a potential networking issue and are reviewing telemetry to determine the next troubleshooting steps."
Given the magnitude of the issue and the size of a company like Microsoft, the outage could potentially have affected the 280 million people who use Microsoft Teams daily for calls and meetings in both business and education capacities.
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Downdector, which tracks whether websites are working or not, reported that around 5,000 people in the UK had experienced an outage leaving them unable to access their emails.
As you can imagine the internet reacted with the usual poise and decorum that you have come to expect from it.
\u201c\ud83d\ude02 #Microsoft services are down world wide\u201d— UK\uea00 (@UK\uea00) 1674636521
\u201cMicrosoft crashing globally is the sign we all needed. Let\u2019s all go home guys. We\u2019ve seen enough\u201d— Langa (@Langa) 1674635223
\u201cMicrosoft engineers right now.. \ud83d\ude43\n#Microsoftdown #MicrosoftTeams #Microsoft #azure #outlook\u201d— BroadbandSmith (@BroadbandSmith) 1674636577
\u201cmicrosoft teams and outlook down.\nme:\u201d— mss (@mss) 1674636521
\u201cMe to the guy trying to fix Microsoft Teams right now\u201d— Oluwadamilola (@Oluwadamilola) 1674635248
\u201cMicrosoft Teams tengah down?\u201d— Faizal Rosly (@Faizal Rosly) 1674632889
\u201cmicrosoft crashing worldwide yet i\u2019m still here at work wtf SEND ME BACK HOME\u201d— Jason (@Jason) 1674635532
\u201cMe seeing Microsoft Teams crash:\u201d— McLovin (@McLovin) 1674631297
\u201cMicrosoft Teams and Outlook being down this morning?\u201d— Ryan (@Ryan) 1674635208
\u201cMicrosoft employees right now \ud83d\ude02\n#MicrosoftTeams\u201d— Sandeep Kumar \ud83c\uddee\ud83c\uddf3 (@Sandeep Kumar \ud83c\uddee\ud83c\uddf3) 1674635388
\u201cMicrosoft Office is down, so I cant access my emails on Outlook?\u201d— Bally Singh (@Bally Singh) 1674637523
\u201cMicrosoft, you dont have to rush. Take your time baby\u201d— Anihtek (@Anihtek) 1674637986
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