Microsoft Corp said Wednesday it is investigating an issue affecting multiple services, including Teams and Outlook, with outage reports that the platforms are down for thousands of users globally.
Microsoft did not disclose the number of users affected by the outage, but data from outage-tracking website Downdetector showed more than 3,900 incidents in India and more than 900 in Japan. Reports of outages also increased in Australia, the United Kingdom and the United Arab Emirates.
The Downdetector site detects outages by aggregating status reports from sources including user-submitted errors to its platform.
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 the #MicrosoftTeams hashtag trending on the social media site.
Microsoft Teams, used by more than 280 million people globally, is an integral part of daily operations for businesses and schools, which use the service to make calls, schedule meetings and manage their workflows. use
