Many Microsoft services like Teams, Xbox Live, Outlook, and the Microsoft 365 suite are inaccessible to thousands of users around the world. Microsoft has acknowledged the outage and said it is working on a fix.
According to DownDetector, a popular tool that tracks the reliability of services, about an hour ago (2:30 a.m. PT), multiple users including Microsoft 365, Outlook, Teams, Minecraft, Azure, GitHub, and the Microsoft Store were compromised. users started reporting accessibility issues with our service.
Microsoft’s Office 365 status page currently states that “Users may not be able to access multiple Microsoft 365 services.” Apart from user-reported services, the company said SharePoint Online, OneDrive for Business, and Microsoft Graph are also facing outages.
“We are reviewing telemetry to identify potential network issues and determine next troubleshooting steps,” the page states.
Microsoft laid off 10,000 employees last week in response to “changing macroeconomic conditions and customer priorities.”
In an email memo sent to employees, Nadella said, “Just as we saw our customers accelerate their digital spending during the pandemic, we are now optimizing our digital spending to use fewer resources. “We are also seeing that some parts of the world are in recession and others are anticipating it, so all industries and We also know that local organizations are paying attention.”
The company has historically had to make these kinds of “tough choices” to maintain its presence in the industry, he added.
