Microsoft Online Services Crash – Affected Up To 365 Million People!
The world’s largest email provider, Microsoft, was struggling to restore its services Friday after outages that reportedly affected up to 365 million users worldwide. The service disruptions affected a variety of Microsoft email products including Office 365, MSN.com, Live@edu and Windows Live Hotmail. The extent of the disruption was unclear, but Microsoft confirmed problems in Europe and the Asia-Pacific region. The outage appears to have lasted only three hours, but Microsoft has been tight lipped as to what caused the service outage. Some people believe that it could have been tied to the San Diego power outage, but who knows.
“We’re rolling out a fix that we believe will resolve issues with Hotmail, SkyDrive, and our other Live properties,” the company tweeted around 2:00am ET. At about 5:00am ET, the company announced that its Office 365 service, a cloud computing product with email capabilities, had been restored.
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