Microsoft services including Outlook, Teams suffer outage

Microsoft Corporation stated that it was investigating a networking issue that impacted multiple services including Teams and Outlook, with outage reports saying the platforms were down for thousands of users across the globe on Wednesday.

According to data from the outage tracking website Down detector showed more than 3,900 incidents in India and over 900 in Japan.

 Outage reports also spiked in Australia, Britain, and the United Arab Emirates despite Microsoft not disclosing the number of users affected by the disruption.

The Downdetector site tracks outages by collating status reports from sources including user-submitted errors on its platform.

“We’ve identified a potential networking issue and are reviewing telemetry to determine the next troubleshooting steps,” Microsoft said in a tweet.

During the outage, most users were unable to exchange messages, join calls or use any features of the Teams application. Many users took to Twitter to share updates about the service disruption, with #MicrosoftTeams trending as a hashtag on the social media site.

Microsoft Teams, used by more than 280 million people globally, forms an integral part of daily operations for businesses and schools, which use the service to make calls, schedule meetings, and organize their workflow.