‘What a stressful way to start the day!’ Millions suffer Microsoft meltdown as Outlook and Teams crashes for millions around the world
- Microsoft applications Outlook and Teams crashed this morning at around 7am
- This left millions unable to send and receive emails, or chat to their colleagues
Hundreds of people have taken to social media to complain after Microsoft services including Outlook suffered an outage.
The first issues were reported at just before 7am this morning, with later Microsoft saying they have identified a ‘possible networking issue’ as the cause.
It meant millions of people working from the office or their homes were left without access to emails, causing chaos for many – although the issue appeared to have been partially resolved before 9am.
Twitter was filled with complaints, with one person asking: ‘It @Outlook down for everyone or am I the only one having a stressful start to the day???’
Millions of people have been left without email this morning after a global outage of Microsoft Outlook and Teams
Twitter was filled with complaints, with one person asking: ‘It @Outlook down for everyone or am I the only one having a stressful start to the day???’
Microsoft said on Twitter that it had identified a possible networking issue was 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.
The firm said on its ‘health status’ page that it has received reports that its OneDrive cloud storage facility, SharePoint Online service and Microsoft Graph are also having problems.
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.
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’
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
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 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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