BREAKING: Global Outage As Microsoft Outlook And Teams Crashes

BREAKING: Global Outage As Microsoft Outlook And Teams Crashes—-Millions of people have been left without email this morning after a global outage of Microsoft Outlook and Teams.

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.

Users took to Twitter to highlight the chaos, with one saying the problems gave them ‘the worst start to the day’. Others saw the funny side, joking that they now have a ‘day off’.

Microsoft said on Twitter that it had identified a ‘potential networking issue’ as the possible cause of the problem 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.

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?’

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CREDIT: DAILYMAIL.CO.UK