Microsoft Users Experience Global Outage, Can't Access Outlook, Teams

U.S. tech giant Microsoft said on Wednesday that it was working to fix a global outage that has affected users across that world.

The malfunction took down the company’s cloud platform Azure. 

"We've determined the network connectivity issue is occurring with devices across the Microsoft Wide Area Network (WAN)," Microsoft said.

Thousands of incidents were reported with people complaining they can’t access Outlook and Teams. 

"We've isolated the problem to a networking configuration issue, and we are analyzing the best mitigation strategy to address it without causing additional impact," Microsoft said in an update.