Microsoft is hit by a major outage that has paralyzed its 365 products for thousands of users.
The disruption affected business communities widely.
Reports of technical failures began arriving early in the afternoon on Thursday, January 22, affecting major productivity platforms such as Microsoft Outlook, Microsoft 365, and Microsoft Teams.
DownDetector confirmed that more than 45,000 reports were logged for Microsoft 365 and around 40,000 for Outlook.
This made it difficult to send or receive emails, access files, or join team meetings.
The outage is confirmed by Microsoft officials.
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Officials added that the team is working to restore infrastructure to bring service traffic back.
A day earlier, users experienced a similar outage that was attributed to a third-party network issue.
As of now, Microsoft support teams are working to resolve the issue on affected systems; however, a specific timeline has not yet been provided.
Microsoft informs its customers that updates are available on its official cloud status web page.
