September 21, 2024

Microsoft Teams is back online after an outage that affected people worldwide

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Satya Nadella holding a phone: Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella. Reuters/Lucas Jackson © Reuters/Lucas Jackson Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella. Reuters/Lucas Jackson

Microsoft Teams started going down around the world on Tuesday morning.

According to website Down Detector, users started reporting problems around 6 a.m. Eastern Time.

“We’ve confirmed that this issue affects users globally. We’re reviewing monitoring telemetry and recent changes to isolate the source of the issue,” Microsoft said in a statement, after initially saying the problem affected Europe and Asia.

It does not appear to be affecting all users.

This is the second time this month Teams has suffered a major outage. On April 1 a suite of Microsoft products including Teams, Azure, and Bing went down.

This is a developing story…

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