Microsoft 365 down for thousands of users. More than 15,000 people were unable to access Word and Excel on Monday, according to the outage monitoring website Downdetector.com.
Microsoft tweeted, “We’re looking into a problem with accessing Outlook on the web.”
As Microsoft 365 was down for thousands of users, when Reuters requested comment on the reports of outages on Microsoft 365, the company did not answer right away.
At least three outages of Microsoft services have occurred since the year’s commencement.
Downdetector tracks outages by collating status reports from several sources including users.
Microsoft 365 is a product family of productivity software, collaboration, and cloud-based services owned by Microsoft.
It encompasses online services such as Outlook.com, OneDrive, Microsoft Teams, programs formerly marketed under the name Microsoft Office (including applications such as Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Outlook on Microsoft Windows, macOS, mobile devices, and on the web), enterprise products and services associated with these products such as Exchange Server, SharePoint, and Yammer.
It also covers subscription plans encompassing these products, including those that include subscription-based licenses to desktop and mobile software, and hosted email and intranet services.
In July 2017, Microsoft introduced a second brand of subscription services for the enterprise market known as Microsoft 365, combining Office 365 with Windows 10 Enterprise volume licenses and other cloud-based security and device management products.
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