Microsoft Outlook Is Down For Some Companies, Causing Major Problems
If you're struggling to send emails today, you're not alone.
Microsoft Outlook isn't working for some businesses nationwide, according to The Washington Post and ZDNet (amongst others).
Although Microsoft Outlook isn't as popular among consumers, it's still huge in the enterprise.
And the enterprise is big for Microsoft, too. The company derives over half of its revenue from business clients. Without functioning email, many of those businesses have come grinding to a halt.
Microsoft has reached out to angry users via Twitter:
The problem is also being hashed out on this Office 365 message board.
"Microsoft has identified an issue in which a portion of capacity responsible for facilitating connectivity to the Exchange Online service has entered into a degraded state," said a Microsoft support rep. "Engineers are actively working on a solution to remediate impact."
Microsoft knows Exchange is broken and they're working on a fix. But that may not be enough to quell angry users who took to Twitter to vent:
This outage comes as Microsoft Lync, an online communications tool, was down on Monday.