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Scores of Microsoft services including Teams, Xbox Live, Outlook and Microsoft 365 suite are inaccessible to thousands of users.

Microsoft is investigating after its services including messaging system Teams and email platform Outlook went down for users around the world.

in London in accessing Microsoft 365 services, including email and videoconferencing tools, the company said in a statement. SharePoint Online, OneDrive for Business and Microsoft Graph were also affected. [Microsoft Corp.](/quote/MSFT:US) experienced widespread problems with its online services, including Outlook and Teams, that it attributed to networking issues.

Multiple Microsoft 365 services have been hit by an outage that is affecting users around the world. The problems have disrupted access to a large number of ...

We are actively investigating and will share updates as soon as more is known. We'll provide more information once we have additional information. Scope of impact: Any user serviced by the affected infrastructure may be unable to access multiple Microsoft 365 services. The company is also looking into Azure connectivity problems. User impact: Users are unable to access multiple Microsoft 365 services. Title: Users may be unable to access multiple Microsoft 365 services

Microsoft is investigating an ongoing outage impacting multiple Microsoft 365 services after customers have reported experiencing connection issues.

"We're investigating issues impacting multiple Microsoft 365 services. "We've determined the network connectivity issue is occurring with devices across the Microsoft Wide Area Network (WAN). "The issue is causing impact in waves, peaking approximately every 30 minutes.

Microsoft Corp. has resolved widespread problems with its online services, including Outlook and Teams, that it attributed to networking issues.

in London in accessing Microsoft 365 services, including email and videoconferencing tools, the company said in a statement. SharePoint Online, OneDrive for Business and Microsoft Graph were also affected. [Microsoft Corp.](/quote/MSFT:US) has resolved widespread problems with its online services, including Outlook and Teams, that it attributed to networking issues.

The company said it was rolling back a network change it believed was causing the outages.

In this photo illustration Microsoft Teams logo is seen... A number of Microsoft services went down on Wednesday morning. SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty ...

The firm [said](https://www.forbes.com/sites/brianbushard/2023/01/24/2023-layoffs-3m-slashes-2500-while-gemini-reportedly-cuts-10-of-its-staff/?sh=6bf785a34235) it plans to cut 10,000 jobs in mid-January ahead of [revealing](https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-01-24/microsoft-says-azure-growth-to-decelerate-shares-erase-gains) lackluster earnings amid slower corporate sales and declining demand. The impact on Azure, a key [revenue](https://www.ft.com/content/a519cb01-4467-4820-ada6-680d2300acb0) [driver](https://www.reuters.com/technology/microsoft-misses-quarterly-revenue-estimates-2023-01-24/) for Microsoft, could mean the disruption is felt further afield from sites using the cloud computing service. Teams, a messaging and communication service, is used by more than [280 million people worldwide](https://twitter.com/fxshaw/status/1618015984702615553?s=20&t=JaALMMz7vdzOwE0-WdBXyg) and Outlook is one of the world’s most popular email clients. [said](https://twitter.com/MSFT365Status/status/1618160643873411072?s=20&t=wosH9ryKIUx2X6wcKqFjAQ) it has “identified a potential networking issue” [affecting](https://status.office365.com/) multiple Microsoft 365 services early Wednesday morning. Microsoft on Wednesday said it is investigating after an outage took down a number of its platforms around the world, leaving thousands of users locked out of services including Microsoft Teams, Outlook and Xbox Live.

Service status monitoring website Downdetector records thousands of people reporting problems.

Its US tech peers have also announced job cuts, including Facebook’s parent Meta, and the Google owner Alphabet, with admissions that they had over-expanded during the coronavirus pandemic, a [common theme](https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2023/jan/06/amazon-apple-tesla-elon-musk-job-cuts-tech-sector). The reported outage came hours after Microsoft flagged softening demand for its cloud computing services in its latest quarterly results. It added at 9.26am GMT: “We’ve rolled back a network change that we believe is causing impact.”

Microsoft said it was investigating an issue that caused its email and video conferencing tools to go down for thousands of users early Wednesday.

Eastern time, it said it had “isolated the problem to a networking configuration issue,” and that it was working on a solution. [reported](https://status.office365.com/) “issues impacting multiple Microsoft 365 services,” including its Outlook and Microsoft Teams services, that serve many businesses. The widely used Microsoft Teams and Outlook email services were among the services affected.

LONDON — (AP) — Microsoft said it's investigating problems with its online services including its Teams messaging platform and Outlook email system after ...

Thousands of users reported problems with Teams, Outlook, the Azure cloud computing service and XBox Live online gaming service early Wednesday on the Downdetector website, which tracks outage reports. It later tweeted that a network change that was suspected to be causing the problem was rolled back and that it's monitoring as the rollback takes effect. In a status update, the tech company reported “service degradation” for a number of its Microsoft 365 services.

Microsoft says it rolled back a network change that may have caused thousands to lose access to its apps Wednesday morning. Key workplace engines like Teams ...

In a three month period that ended in December, the company's overall profit fell 12%, to $16.4 billion. The tech giant originally said it had isolated the problem to "networking configuration issues," later saying that it had "rolled back a network change that we believe is causing impact." We're continuing to monitor the recovery across the service and some customers are reporting mitigation. It updated its status report to show the applications were fully accessible again shortly after 7:30 a.m. [said in a status report ](https://status.office365.com/)that users were "unable to access multiple Microsoft 365 services," including Teams, Outlook, Sharepoint, Exchange, OneDrive and Defender. [showed a spike in issues with Microsoft 365 apps](https://downdetector.com/status/microsoft-365/) (formerly known as Office 365) around 3 a.m.

Microsoft says it's investigating problems with its online services including its Teams messaging platform and Outlook email system after users around the ...

- Updated “We’re continuing to monitor the recovery across the service and some customers are reporting mitigation," the Microsoft 365 Status Twitter account said. Thousands of users reported problems with Teams, Outlook, the Azure cloud computing service and XBox Live online gaming service early Wednesday on the Downdetector website, which tracks outage reports.

Microsoft on Wednesday said it had recovered all of its cloud services after a networking outage took down its cloud platform Azure along with services such ...

Earlier, Microsoft said it had determined a network connectivity issue was occurring with devices across the Microsoft WAN. During the outage, users faced problems in exchanging messages, joining calls or using any features of Teams application. Microsoft’s cloud business had helped shore up its fiscal second-quarter earnings on Tuesday. [(CRZBF)](https://money.cnn.com/quote/quote.html?symb=CRZBF&source=story_quote_link) (CBKG) said in a statement that Microsoft was investigating several issues impacting the bank. This impacts connectivity between clients on the internet to Azure, as well as connectivity between services in data centres, it said. [(MSFT)](https://money.cnn.com/quote/quote.html?symb=MSFT&source=story_quote_link) on Wednesday said it had recovered all of its cloud services after a networking outage took down its cloud platform Azure along with services such as Teams and Outlook used by millions around the globe.

Microsoft experienced a three-hour outage to its core M365 offerings due to Azure network issues.

While the two outages vary in source, the widespread impact is a common feature of these and all outages from major organizations. And more firms are paying upward of $1 million to survive the aftereffects of an outage, with the number of firms paying out seven figures rising to 15%, up from 11% in previous years. This can dramatically reduce the time it takes to get back in business following a disaster to help you meet your specified recovery time objective (RTO). A change the firm made to its WAN severed connectivity between the internet and Microsoft’s core suite of services. When a contractor deleted said files, the system slowed and NOTAM alerts were unavailable to pilots, grounding domestic flights across the U.S. The outage in multiple regions lasted for three hours and affected Azure resources in Public Azure regions.

Affected services include Microsoft Teams, Exchange Online, Outlook, SharePoint Online, OneDrive for Business, Microsoft Graph, PowerBi, M365 Admin Portal, ...

Our latest telemetry shows signs of recovery across multiple regions and services, and we are continuing to actively monitor the situation." This impacts connectivity between clients on the internet to Azure, as well as connectivity between services in datacenters, as well as ExpressRoute connections. We're also connecting the service to additional infrastructure to expedite the recovery process." [Q2 2023 earnings update on Tuesday](https://news.microsoft.com/2023/01/24/microsoft-cloud-strength-drives-second-quarter-results-3/), where it reported 2% year on year revenues growth to $52.7 billion, thanks to stronger performing cloud services. We'll provide more information once we have additional information," Microsoft said. The issue is causing impact in waves, peaking approximately every 30 minutes.

All of Microsoft's cloud services go down, everywhere. Redmond's IaaS, PaaS and SaaS—including GitHub—were dead for several hours, and are still running ...

Azure … GCP had a similar thing once, where a BGP update knocked out their Asian regions. This is just the nudge I needed: … Because I couldn’t auth with Microsoft MFA, my VPN would connect but refuse to auth further. I’ll be moving the whole thing to Linode later this afternoon. Just a week earlier, the company slashed 10,000 jobs. A wide scale Microsoft outage had many users unable to access Outlook, Teams, Azure, and more. Azure said most customers should have seen services resume after a full recovery of the Microsoft Wide Area Network. This has all the hallmarks of a dodgy DNS config or a broken BGP update. … It’s clear that some hapless Microserf b0rked the internal network with a configuration change. Analysis: It’s DNS.

Cloud revenue growth has been slowing quarter-on-quarter for the Windows maker, which expects the growth to continue to decline through the year.

However, revenue for personal computing division of the business declined 16% in constant currency to $14.2 billion. We are witnessing non-linear improvements in capability of foundation models, which we are making available as platforms,” Nadella said, adding that the company was positioned to capture new AI-based workloads. Net income for the company rose by just 1% year-on-year. “In our Consumer business, Windows OEM and devices will see continued declines as the PC market returns to pre-pandemic levels. [31% growth for the segment](https://www.computerworld.com/article/3677867/rising-cloud-revenue-helps-soften-microsofts-growth-slowdown.html). And from that, we expect Q3 growth to decelerate roughly four to five points in constant currency,” Amy Hood, chief financial officer at Microsoft, said

While the company saw weakness in its PC software business, Microsoft (ticker: MSFT) posted solid results in cloud computing and enterprise applications. In ...

In particular, the Azure public cloud business beat Wall Street growth estimates, which is a relief to investors nervous about the outlook for corporate IT spending. posted better-than-expected results for the December quarter, driven by strength in cloud computing. While the company saw weakness in its PC software business, Microsoft (ticker: MSFT) posted solid results in cloud computing and enterprise applications.

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella used the 2Q earnings call to talk about business growth deceleration, OpenAI, Teams and other topics.

“In the first half of the year, over 70 percent of our revenue came from our commercial business and over 70 percent of that from Microsoft Cloud,” she said. I’m confident in the ability of our Microsoft team to manage the near term by continuing to position ourselves for the future.” In the second half of the fiscal year, Microsoft expects a deceleration in business revenue growth, with full-year operating margins dropping by 2 points in U.S. Windows OEM revenue should drop by “mid to high 30s,” similar to the overall PC market. And Microsoft also expects “relatively flat” growth in commercial bookings year over year in part due to the slowdown. The “more personal computing” segment revenue should bring in $11.9 billion to $12.3 billion. Hood said that small and midsize businesses—a segment partners usually work in—and frontline worker offerings drove seat growth in this part of the business. “One of the things was, what’ll happen to Teams usage after the pandemic?” Nadella said. “The age of AI is upon us and Microsoft is powering it,” he said. The number of organizations with four or more workloads increased over 40 percent year over year.” Windows commercial products and cloud services will see “relatively flat” revenue growth year over year due in part to the slowdown. In Microsoft’s consumption business, customers have been “looking to bank some savings on some workloads and then start [a new project],” Nadella said on the call.

Qcells seeks to supply more than 2.5 gigawatts of solar panels and EPC services to solar project developers in partnership with Microsoft.

with a complete solar supply chain, Qcells intends to become a leading developer for solar and other clean energy solutions such as energy storage system. This first step is only the beginning of a great partnership that not only supports our two companies but helps deliver a clean energy future for customers and communities.” This alliance is the first time a company that procures energy is working directly with a solar supplier to adopt clean energy on a big scale. “Building a resilient solar energy supply chain is essential to advancing a global green energy economy. “Similarly, Qcells is proud to play a role with Microsoft to bring more renewable energy online in the years to come. Microsoft has committed to purchasing renewable energy with a goal of achieving 100% coverage of electricity consumption with renewable energy by 2025.

This earnings season should provide answers as to how companies can weather the storm of a looming recession, with Wedbush's Dan Ives saying the top question ...

Microsoft said earlier this month it will cut 10,000 jobs, joining Amazon (18,000), Alphabet (12,000) and Meta (11,000) in dramatically reducing their headcounts in recent weeks. Tesla, Meta, Amazon, Apple, Microsoft, Netflix, Alphabet each fell 27% or more last year, and Meta and Tesla’s 68% and 64% respective declines were among the 10 largest drops on the S&P. Morgan Stanley predicts the S&P will fall as much as 25% to a two-year low of 3,000 during the first few months of 2023 as earnings disappoint. “The January rally might be over if the rest of the big-tech earnings and multi-nationals paints the same downbeat picture,” Oanda analyst Ed Moya wrote in a Wednesday note. Microsoft, which reported its slowest quarterly revenue growth in six years but had significant growth in its crucial cloud business Wednesday, now faces a “standoff between the bulls and bears” among investors, according to Ives. public companies Wednesday were Microsoft, Amazon, Apple and Alphabet,

Microsoft Corp's lackluster quarterly outlook points to more gloom ahead for the tech sector, analysts said, after the tech bellwether warned that its ...

The segment outperformed expectations in the second quarter, however, which initially boosted shares on Tuesday evening. "What we learned is that no one is immune to macro ... The companies are four of the biggest by market value in the United States. [(IBM.N)](https://www.reuters.com/companies/IBM.N) and Oracle Corp [(ORCL.N)](https://www.reuters.com/companies/ORCL.N) all declined. company, came after a steep fall in client spending prompted tech heavyweights from Amazon.com Inc [(AMZN.O)](https://www.reuters.com/companies/AMZN.O) to Meta Platforms [(META.O)](https://www.reuters.com/companies/META.O) to slash jobs and save cash. [The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles.](https://www.thomsonreuters.com/en/about-us/trust-principles.html) Register for free to Reuters and know the full story [(GOOGL.O)](https://www.reuters.com/companies/GOOGL.O) was down 3%. "That (the outlook) is taking the wind out of the sails," said Art Hogan, chief market strategist at B Riley Wealth. what is telling is the quarter was largely fine, but we started to see softness in December and the outlook for this quarter was worse than expected," said Rishi Jaluria, analyst at RBC. [(MSFT.O)](https://www.reuters.com/companies/MSFT.O) lackluster quarterly outlook points to more gloom ahead for the tech sector, analysts said, after the tech bellwether warned that its customers were cautious about spending in a turbulent economy.

Microsoft's lacklustre quarterly outlook points to more gloom ahead for the tech sector, analysts said.

“Microsoft is the biggest bellwether for enterprise and cloud spending in the world. “What we learnt is that no one is immune to [the] macro… Nadella, however, said Microsoft would focus on AI technology, calling it the next major wave of computing.

Is ChatGPT the new Clippy? Shortly after Microsoft confirmed plans this week to invest billions in OpenAI, the company behind the viral new AI chatbot tool ...

“This is the phenomenon of ‘everyday AI’ where AI is just in the background and customers take it for granted.” Nadella said the company will continue to invest in “strategic areas for our future” and pointed to advances in AI as “the next major wave” of computing. Integrating ChatGPT too quickly into Microsoft’s products could run the risk of schools rethinking their use of that software. Both ChatGPT and DALL-E are trained on vast amounts of data in order to generate content. Microsoft, he said, will likely want to “wait before letting GPT systems answer online search queries.” That has raised some concerns about the potential of these tools to perpetuate biases found in that data and to spread misinformation. It is now working closely with a company, OpenAI, and a product, ChatGPT, that have reportedly “There is a kernel of truth to the Clippy comparison,” David Lobina, an artificial intelligence analyst at ABI Research. For Microsoft’s search engine Bing, ChatGPT could provide more personalized search results and better summarize web pages. For Microsoft, integrating the chatbot tool could make its core software products more powerful. It has drafted research paper abstracts that fooled some scientists. Since it was made available in late November, ChatGPT has been used to generate original essays, stories and song lyrics in response to user prompts.

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Microsoft got a few high fives from Wall Street on Tuesday night as its quarterly Azure sales bested analyst estimates amid an overall earnings beat.

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella said the company's security business has generated $20 billion over the past year, driven by partners and by products such as ...

[launched](https://www.crn.com/news/security/microsoft-launches-azure-sentinel-for-cloud-scale-security-analytics) in 2019, and one of its early partners was Netrix, No. During the second half of 2022, Microsoft rolled out more than 300 security product enhancements, Jakkal said in the blog post Wednesday. On Tuesday, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella disclosed on the company’s quarterly [earnings](https://www.crn.com/news/cloud/microsoft-earnings-call-new-business-slowdown-big-ai-bets) call that its security business revenue passed the $20 billion mark during the prior 12 months. It doesn’t appear that Microsoft had shared a comparable figure for the size of its security partner community a year ago. “The number of organizations with four or more workloads increased over 40 percent year over year.” 31, demand for the Microsoft security portfolio is undoubtedly a bright spot.

This week, Microsoft confirmed it's planning to invest billions in OpenAI, the company behind the viral new chatbot tool ChatGPT.

But it’s a smart one for a company whose value boils down to the fact that consumers are addicted to it. That’s five bucks total, not five bucks in addition to the cost of the medicine. (OK, most nights — we believe in a four-day work week around here.) The bottom line: As for Amazon, this program is almost certainly a loss-maker, analysts say. Amazon has been moving steadily into health care, minus a few stumbles (we’re looking at you, Amazon Care), for years. Some potential use cases include writing lines of text for a PowerPoint presentation, drafting an essay in Word or doing automatic data entry in Excel spreadsheets. “There is a kernel of truth to the Clippy comparison,” David Lobina, an artificial intelligence analyst at ABI Research, told Sam. The catch? A cover letter for a job application. It can craft a speech. Clippy was cute, like a cartoon dog, and had an intelligence to match. It can write your dumb emails for you.

Microsoft Security reaches another milestone—Comprehensive, customer-centric solutions drive results · Navigating a changing threat landscape · Do more with less ...

[visit our website](https://www.microsoft.com/security/). [WiCyS (Women in CyberSecurity)](https://www.wicys.org/), we’re empowering the recruitment, retention, and advancement of women in the cybersecurity field. Bookmark the [Security blog](https://www.microsoft.com/security/blog/) to keep up with our expert coverage on security matters. [national campaign with community colleges](https://blogs.microsoft.com/blog/2021/10/28/america-faces-a-cybersecurity-skills-crisis-microsoft-launches-national-campaign-to-help-community-colleges-expand-the-cybersecurity-workforce/) in the United States to help skill and recruit 250,000 cybersecurity professionals by 2025. 2022 pushed all of us to learn on our feet as the hybrid and remote workplace and the move to a multi-platform environment continued to bring new security challenges. [Frasers Group](https://customers.microsoft.com/story/1579195615946316824-frasers-group-retailers-microsoft-security-solutions) consolidated from 86 security vendors down to just Microsoft and one other. As part of our comprehensive approach, [Microsoft Sentinel](https://www.microsoft.com/security/business/siem-and-xdr/microsoft-sentinel), [Microsoft 365 Defender](https://www.microsoft.com/security/business/siem-and-xdr/microsoft-365-defender), and [Microsoft Defender for Cloud](https://www.microsoft.com/security/business/cloud-security/microsoft-defender-cloud) seamlessly integrate to provide [security information and event management (SIEM) and extended detection and response (XDR)](https://www.microsoft.com/security/business/solutions/siem-xdr-threat-protection) solutions that proactively protect your enterprise from ransomware attacks. [password-spray attacks](https://www.microsoft.com/security/blog/2020/04/23/protecting-organization-password-spray-attacks/) cost an attacker almost nothing and can yield invaluable access to business information. As with IT security, a solid defense based on [Zero Trust](https://www.microsoft.com/security/business/zero-trust), effective policy enforcement, and continuous monitoring can help limit any potential blast radius. [average of 75 security solutions](https://pulse.microsoft.com/en/work-productivity-en/na/fa2-whats-your-companys-cybersecurity-score/). However, these attacks can often be prevented by following a few simple [security best practices](https://query.prod.cms.rt.microsoft.com/cms/api/am/binary/RE50Mog). I am also incredibly proud of the Microsoft team for their continued dedication to excellence and to our mission to make the world a safer place for all.

Revenue increased 2% in the midst of ChatGPT, mass layoffs, and ad growth strategies.

Regulatory challenges could also affect the way it designs and markets its products, potentially limiting the advertising opportunities for advertisers. The company will also incur a $1.2 billion charge in its second quarter related to severance costs, changes to its hardware portfolio, and lease consolidation. Additionally, if Microsoft experiences issues with security vulnerabilities, misuse of personal data, or reputational harm, it could affect the trust and engagement of users on the platform, potentially decreasing the reach and impact of advertising campaigns. The company is committed to helping its customers use its platforms and tools to do more with less today and innovate for the future in the new era of AI. The job cuts will affect less than 5% of the company’s total workforce, and the cuts will be completed by the end of Microsoft’s fiscal third quarter. [integrate OpenAI’s ChatGPT](https://searchengineland.com/microsoft-to-add-chatgpt-features-to-bing-search-390936) features into Bing Search in the upcoming months.

A quarterly earnings beat wasn't enough to send Microsoft shares higher in early trading Wednesday. Denis Charlet/AFP via Getty Images. Microsoft MSFT ...

‘s fiscal [second-quarter earnings](https://www.barrons.com/articles/microsoft-earning-stock-price-51674510719?mod=md_stockoverview_news&mod=article_inline) were pretty good. Wall Street was looking for $2.29 a share from $53 billion in sales. That’s a bad sign for [all stocks](https://www.barrons.com/articles/cloud-amazon-microsoft-salesforce-stock-price-51674646111?mod=md_stockoverview_news&mod=article_inline), though the omen has nothing to do with the fundamentals of Microsoft’s business.

We stand at the threshold of a new era of precision medicine, where health and life sciences data hold the potential to dramatically propel and expand our ...

Terra is a powerful platform that will enhance biomedical research collaboration and scientific exploration for the betterment of humankind. Innovation within the life sciences is a core Health Futures priority, and we partner with leading organizations to advance and build infrastructure for emerging precision health modalities, including genomics, immunomics, and beyond. Yet one of the major barriers to scientific discovery is access to data—at scale, longitudinally, and in multiple modalities. Part of the challenge for data scientists and researchers is accessing large and diverse sample sizes. [Terra’s cloud-based platform offers a secure, centralized location for biomedical research, connecting researchers to each other and to the datasets and tools they need to collaborate effectively, advance their work, and achieve scientific breakthroughs. We stand at the threshold of a new era of precision medicine, where health and life sciences data hold the potential to dramatically propel and expand our understanding and treatment of human disease.