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Microsoft is investigating an outage that has left thousands of users around the world unable to access the website’s services, including Teams and Outlook.
It did not say how many were affected, but Downdetector.com which tracks outages through a range of sources including user reports, recorded thousands of people reporting problems with Teams, Outlook, Microsoft 365 and XBox Live.
It showed there were around 3,945 incidents of people reporting issues with email platform Outlook in the UK as of 7.43am today – and 1,461 with Teams.
Users in areas including Manchester, London, Birmingham, Norwich, Oxford, Brighton and Cardiff were reporting problems.
It also reported more than 3,900 incidents of people reporting issues with Microsoft Teams in India and over 900 in Japan.
Outage reports also spiked in Australia and the United Arab Emirates.
Many users posted on social media to share updates.
“Microsoft Teams and outlook are having issues here in Ethiopia… are these services down?” one social media user tweeted.
Another wrote: “Microsoft Outlook, Teams services down in Sri Lanka and around the globe.”
Microsoft tweeted: “We’re investigating issues impacting multiple Microsoft 365 services. More info can be found in the admin center under MO502273.”
It later added: “We’ve identified a potential networking issue and are reviewing telemetry to determine the next troubleshooting steps.”
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