Microsoft Corp’s messaging application MS Teams was down for thousands of users on Thursday, according to an outage tracking website.
Satya Nadella headed the tech giant addressed the issue and said they are investigating the matter. However, the company hasn’t revealed the reason behind the outage yet. As per the report, more than 4,800 incidents of people reporting issues with Microsoft Teams at about 10pm ET/ 7:30am IST, according to Downdetector.com.
The web monitoring firm also showed there were more than 150 incidents of people reporting issues with Microsoft Office 365.
We’ve received reports of users being unable to access Microsoft Teams or leverage any features. We’re investigating the issue and further updates can be found in your Service Health Dashboard via TM402718.
— Microsoft 365 Status (@MSFT365Status) July 21, 2022
Recently the company tweeted that they are trying to resolve the problem as soon as possible.
Our telemetry indicates that Microsoft Teams functionality is beginning to recover. We’re continuing our efforts to implement relief within the environment. Additional information can be found under TM402718, MO402741, or at https://t.co/AEUj8uAGXl.
— Microsoft 365 Status (@MSFT365Status) July 21, 2022
Other big technology companies have also been hit by outages in the past year, with a near six-hour disruption at Meta Platforms keeping WhatsApp, Instagram, and Messenger out of reach for billions of users last October.