Outlook and Teams down: Microsoft apps not working amid major Office 365 outage

[BumRushDaShow]

Source: The Independent

Monday 25 November 2024 12:04 GMT


Microsoft’s Outlook and Teams apps have stopped working properly amid what appears to be a major outage. Both apps are part of the Office 365 suite, Microsoft’s offering for businesses.

The outage came towards the beginning of the working day in Europe, and left many without the ability to communicate with their colleagues.

Microsoft Teams is the company’s workplace chat app, and competes with other messaging platforms such as Slack. Outlook and its associated online services are used for workplace emails and calendar functions such as scheduling meetings.

Both appeared not to be working properly on Monday morning, according to users and tracking website Down Detector. Microsoft said it was aware of some issues with Exchange Online – the email hosting service for businesses that is accessed through Outlook – as well as in the calendar functionality in Teams.

Read more: https://www.independent.co.uk/tech/outlook-teams-down-microsoft-not-working-b2653105.html

[DeepWinter]

1. My Outlook

and Teams is up. Calendar is working and prompting me. Hmmm.

[moniss]

2. I use Apache. Totally free. nt

[Bernardo de La Paz]

3. I use LibreOffice. Free, free, and never cloudy. Cloud usage should be a separate, conscious decision. . . nt

[LearnedHand]

6. Microsoft 365 is best in an enterprise environment

It's a very different experience from what a user sees when they subscribe to the personal version. So is a windows, for that matter.

[defacto7]

7. Since LO split from OO, I haven't used anything but LibreOffice.

But then, I'm a Linux guy 100%.

[underpants]

4. Worst 4 words you can hear in a meeting "it's on Teams"

Teams sucks. It’s great for more than one person to be able to work on a spreadsheet but that’s only handy during budget time. Other than that, the spreadsheets suck and Teams is a pain in the ass to navigate. Same with One Note.

These aren’t improvements they are someone’s idea who clearly don’t actually work with them.

[LearnedHand]

5. Actually, the Teams meeting functionality is brilliant

And so are the IM and video calls. It's the left nav that's untenable. Microsoft should actually USE their UX team instead of waving hands at them and their input.