Microsoft down: Teams, Office 365, Outlook, and other apps face massive outage

Microsoft-owned apps like Teams, Office 365, and Outlook experienced a massive outage on Thursday afternoon, per Down Detector, a platform that tracks such outages based on users’ reports. Microsoft also acknowledged the outage on social media.

More than 10,000 people reported an outage with Microsoft Teams, the company’s virtual meeting software. Additionally, more than 13,000 people reported issues with Microsoft Office 365, the company’s suite of software tools, and more than 8,000 people reported problems with Microsoft Outlook, the company’s emailing service.