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Paris (AFP) – Several Microsoft services, including the Teams communication platform or Outlook messaging, were out of service around the world on Wednesday due to “network configuration problems,” the American group said on Twitter.
“We have isolated the issue”, which was linked to “network settings”, announced one of Microsoft’s service accounts on Twitter at 09:06 GMT.
“We are analyzing the best mitigation strategy to solve it without causing additional impact,” he added.
The multinational company did not clarify how many users were affected and did not respond to questions from AFP.
The suite of apps and programs included in Microsoft 365 (Teams, Outlook, and others) has more than 300 million users, who have expressed their frustration online.
“I have to deliver some homework in half an hour in Teams and the servers are down in India. Do something,” asked one user.
The specialized site Downdetector reported incidents in the United States and Europe that affected other Microsoft-related services, from the Xbox Live gaming platform to the LinkedIn social network.
The computer giant announced in mid-January that it was going to lay off some 10,000 employees by the end of March (just under 5% of its workforce).
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