Microsoft Investigates Global Outage Affecting Azure, Word, PowerPoint, and Outlook

Jul 30, 2024, 02:03 PM

Microsoft is currently investigating a widespread outage affecting multiple services, including Azure and Microsoft 365. Users globally are experiencing access issues and degraded performance with Office applications and cloud services. The company has confirmed that Azure is down and is looking into network infrastructure issues causing connection problems. This incident comes just weeks after a previous global IT meltdown. More information can be found under MO842351 in the admin center. The affected applications include Word, PowerPoint, and Outlook.