Global Microsoft Outage Brings Down Teams, Office 365 And Outlook

Microsoft Corp said late Monday's recent update possibly resulted in a significant outage impacting users' access to various Microsoft 365 services, including Outlook.com and Microsoft Teams.

The developer of Windows and Office software said it did not "observe an increase in successful connections" even after it rolled back the change to mitigate the impact, reports Reuters.

"A moment ago nothing was working, then I went into files in Teams and it was working, now nothing is working. Well, I guess now I have an excuse to not do work and watch TV," one Twitter user tweeted.

"We're pursuing mitigation steps for this issue. In parallel, we're rerouting traffic to alternate systems to provide further relief to the affected users," Microsoft said on its status page, without specifying how many users were affected.

Several other Twitter users complained that the shutdown meant they could miss their work interviews and the deadline for college assignments.

The Xbox manufacturer also said that they were working on testing other alternatives while examining the root cause of the outage.