It’s Not Just You, Microsoft 365 Is Down
Attention, workers everywhere: Microsoft 365 is currently down. Microsoft’s flagship work suite, which includes tools such as Microsoft Teams and Microsoft Outlook, is currently experiencing issues affecting users. It’s not yet clear exactly why these issues are occurring, but according to Downdetector (owned by Lifehacker parent company Ziff Davis), thousands of users are reporting issues.
There are a number of causes that could trigger a widespread outage like this, and in all likelihood Microsoft will see the issue isolated and resolved soon, especially considering how many businesses and users rely on Microsoft 365 to function. But it follows a number of high-profile outages this week. Just this morning, Yahoo! and AOL were both down. Last week, X had an outage, as did Verizon, which is pretty famous I might add.
What do you think of it so far?
While waiting for a solution, there is not much you can do on your end. If your Microsoft applications are malfunctioning, you can try working with one of the offline tools you have access to. If you have other means of communication besides Teams, use them. There’s nothing short of Microsoft releasing a patch of their own that will bring the feature back online here.
