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(Reuters) -Microsoft Corp said on Wednesday it was investigating an outage where users were unable to access Microsoft Teams or leverage any features on the ...

The web monitoring firm also showed there were more than 150 incidents of people reporting issues with Microsoft Office 365. However, there were more than 4,800 incidents of people reporting issues with Microsoft Teams at about 10 p.m. ET, according to Downdetector.com, which tracks outages by collating status reports from sources including user-submitted errors on its platform. Other big technology companies have also been hit by outages in the past year, with a near six-hour disruption at Meta Platforms keeping WhatsApp, Instagram and Messenger out of reach for billions of users last October.

Microsoft has pinpointed the cause of an outage to its Teams collaboration platform that is having a global impact. "We've determined that a recent ...

Reconnecting…'," Microsoft said. "In parallel, we’re exploring other options to mitigate impact as quickly as possible." "We’re working to direct traffic to a healthy service to mitigate impact.

Updated Microsoft's Teams collaboration environment is experiencing an outage, depriving unknown numbers of people of the opportunity to enjoy video and/or ...

We anticipate that some users may be able to access the affected features shortly." Those who attend offices may also wish to consider "walking" to a "meeting room" – a facility established with the express purpose of allowing teams of people to interact. Reconnecting…' Users leveraging the web client may see a message stating 'Operation failed with unexpected error'." Among the services troubled by the outage is the admin center, where Microsoft offers info on outages. The Register would like to take this opportunity to wish readers the best during this trying time, and to remind them that olde-timey devices called "telephones" still exist and can quite easily arrange at least three-way calls. Most of the reaction The Register can find is therefore from the Asia-Pacific region, where businesses such as an Australian horse-racing organization have been disrupted.

Microsoft Teams functionality is beginning to recover,” Microsoft tweeted.

However, the tech giant Microsoft did not immediately respond to a Reuters request for comment. “We have determined that a recent deployment contained a broken connection to an internal storage service. Do not type comments in all capital letters, or in all lower case letters, or using abbreviated text.

Microsoft Corp said on Wednesday it was investigating an outage where users were unable to access Microsoft Teams or leverage any features on the app.

Skype also offers video calling features to its users. Google Meet is a video-communication platform developed by Google. It offers multi-way audio and video calls with a resolution up to 720 pixels. It is browser compatible and also has a mobile application.

According to Downdetector.com, there were more than 4800 cases of customers reporting troubles with Microsoft Teams.

A slew of global electronics and hardware manufacturers are petitioning the Centre for an early release of payments due to them under the country’s ambitious production-linked incentive (PLI) scheme, people directly in the know told ET. The government lowered the ‘windfall’ levy on domestic crude and fuel exports on Wednesday in the first review of the tax imposed on July 1 this month as international crude oil prices softened.Volume Drops Point to Stress on Demand: Mehta The company, however, made no mention of the number of users who were impacted.