Microsoft has just admitted that it’s suffered a significant outage, which has temporarily knocked out Office 365 and the Azure cloud computing platform.
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USERS of Microsoft Office 365 and Azure services have complained of major outages today.
Starting at approximately 09:00 on 3rd Dec, 2015, customers began experiencing intermittent issues accessing Azure services that use, or have dependencies on, Azure Active Directory.
However, they first showed up in Visual Studio Team Services on Wednesday, between 9.44 p.m. and 11.44 p.m. UTC, Microsoft said.
In April, Microsoft chief executive Satya Nadella said there were 50 million active monthly users of the Office 365 service around the world, with 12.4 million users of the consumer version.
Users in West and North Europe are unable to access Word, Excel and Outlook through the portal, but a fix shouldn’t be far away.
It also advised users in western and northern Europe to check back shortly for a full list of the affected services.
While the Office 365 servers for the Asia-Pacific (APAC) region are working fine, the company’s European access points went down this morning without warning.
Microsoft was not immediately available to comment on the issue and its official Office 365 “health status” page claims there are no problems.
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“There are now no known issues preventing you from signing in to your Office 365 service health dashboard”. Azure is now experiencing an outage in some parts of Europe.
