Per Microsoft, a chain of poorly-constructed internal updates has caused the interruptions.
These outages have been impacting users across the world, but have been most intense in the United States, specifically the Northeast, Midwest, and much of California.Īre Hackers Causing the Crashes? These outages are not suspected to be the result of malicious hacking. 1, and for intermittent periods of time today, Oct. Users of Outlook, Teams, OneDrive, and SharePoint were without service for over five hours on Sept. For the 3rd time in ten days, a major Microsoft outage has rendered Office 365 completely useless.