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Microsoft Says It Is Working On Fix After Users Report Skype, Outlook, Xbox Live Outages (foxnews.com)

Posted by msmash on from the outage-report dept.

An anonymous reader shares a report: A huge outage hit Microsoft services Tuesday morning, with users across the globe experiencing problems accessing Outlook, Xbox and Skype. Users were unable to log onto the Outlook email client via mobile devices and received an error message when trying to access the desktop version of the service. Users also reportedly experienced problems with Microsoft's Xbox and Skype services. Microsoft acknowledged the Xbox issues in a statement posted to its Xbox Live status page. "Another issue has been identified that is causing problems for some members signing in to Xbox Live. The team is working to resolve the issue as quickly as possible. Thanks for your patience," it said.

23 comments

  1. CIA Connection by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Given that Wikileaks has revealed this morning that the CIA receives transcripts of Skype chats, I wonder if there is a connection.

    1. Re:CIA Connection by JcMorin · · Score: 1

      https://cdn.meme.am/cache/inst...

    2. Re: CIA Connection by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      When aren't they connected to everything? Never for as long as they can help it.

  2. Damn. by fahrbot-bot · · Score: 1

    ... users across the globe experiencing problems accessing Outlook, Xbox and Skype.
    Users were unable to log onto the Outlook email client ...

    Damn. I thought it was a new feature.

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    1. Re:Damn. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Sound like somebody already fixed it and M$ is trying to break it again.

    2. Re:Damn. by reboot246 · · Score: 2

      Agreed. I would consider them being down a blessing, not a problem.

  3. An admin probably just tripped on a power strip. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Somebody stepped on a power strip. Nothing else here to see folks. Just waiting for the systems to come back up online.

  4. Thanks, Nintendo! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    It hasn't even been out for a week and already Nintendo's Switch online services are failing. This would never happen on real game consoles like Xbox One.

  5. suck my dick you pedo retard by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    there's a mobile malware that disconnects you from the network, but it's a lame one, because it's for android.

  6. This is a business killer by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    My organization uses Office 365 and the launcher apps are missing as well as Exchange Online and Sharepoint being very slow. It's been a problem for three days now with no relief in sight.

    This kind of crap can happen to anyone, but I would have preferred to have gone Google Apps. They seem to have far fewer of these episodes, as a friend of mine also in IT uses it in his organization and has experienced far less trouble than us.

  7. Azure...? by Streetlight · · Score: 3, Informative

    I'm assuming these Software as a Service systems are running on some kind of Azure system run by Microsoft. Not good publicity. Amazon's AWS had problems last week. So much for cloud-only storage of important, immediately needed data or services.

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    1. Re:Azure...? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      >So much for cloud-only storage...
      As it should be.

      Look, it's not hard to back things up locally. But we do forget... or consider the routine boring & beneath us. So companies will 'offer us a service' to make it easy. That's the trap. And yes, for important & immediately needed data or services, local redundancy should be considered.

    2. Re:Azure...? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      On-premise services and equipment have 100% reliability?

    3. Re:Azure...? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Not necessarily. But when shit goes down and it's on premise in the server room, my team is on top of it, we own it, and our company is priority #1. We aren't priority #14,963 below a whole bunch of other people in "the cloud." We aren't sitting around twiddling our thumbs, looking like a bunch of incompetent idiots with no answer other than "sorry, dunno what's going on, some kinda cloud problem..." We're getting shit fixed.

      It's certainly possible to have 100% reliability on premise. We haven't had an unplanned outage of any public service in at least a year (our internal mp3/flac server did shit the bed before Christmas, but who cares). And because our company is priority #1, we schedule our maintenance windows to suit our needs, not to suit some Amazon or Microsoft exec's needs. Recall the recent AWS outage happened because something was amiss with their billing system, so they decided to go poking around at shit and fat-fingered something in the middle of the US business day. The change management procedures where I work wouldn't allow that to happen.

    4. Re:Azure...? by Streetlight · · Score: 1

      My point involved "cloud-only" storage for important, immediately needed data or services. One of the first principles of backup is multiple methods of storage and availability. Cloud storage and availability is pretty reliable, but can go down as can local equipment. It's even less likely both will go down at the same time. If the local electricity goes out and there is no power backup, including for the carrier's Internet, there's nothing one can do except wait. It sounds like cloud based Azure and AWS don't have more than one storage and/or access point, i.e., multiple, accessible backups.

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    5. Re:Azure...? by guruevi · · Score: 1

      It sounds like cloud based Azure and AWS don't have more than one storage and/or access point, i.e., multiple, accessible backups.

      Both Microsoft and Amazon's idea of "backup" is just replicating the thing to multiple data-centers and using short DNS timeouts to be able to move services from datacenter to datacenter. It's a very cheap/badly implemented method of HA, not backup.

      Case in point: O365 does not have point-in-time backups and yes, they occasionally have a corrupted mailbox or folder that has replicated in it's corrupt state across the globe. Why: they're running Windows and Exchange on a variation of a 1993 file system - they have simply not accounted for the fact that disks occasionally return corruption that passes the hardware ECC tests.

      Same goes for Amazon, it's a well known issue among it's customers that you can occasionally have a volume go bad even across multiple 'replication zones', the same reason though, hardware only has limited error recovery, the "right" 2 bits go wrong and your data is toast.

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  8. So Amazon fired that guy and he landed a new job? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1

    N/T

  9. Yep...Shocker... by TheOuterLinux · · Score: 2, Interesting

    You'd think people would learn by now...Buy a decent computer, wipe it out, and install Linux. Everything they build is spyware anyway. It wouldn't surprise me if they tried to implement the AI they've been working on in someway and it cause every popular communication service they have to crash. Think about that. Out of everything else they do, those platforms crash. Damn you Cortona and you're thirst for gossip! (Shakes fist) Women drivers!...Imagine what happens when that AI gets "sick" and everyone blindly keeps being sucked into Mucro$oft's cloud computing plans. Jesus...

  10. Fox News... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    ...is suddenly a viable source of tech information now, is it?

  11. Re:So Amazon fired that guy and he landed a new jo by Motherfucking+Shit · · Score: 1

    I hope not, they just spent millions of dollars training him. You don't fire an asset like that.

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  12. Linux crashes after updates too. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Linux crashes after updates too.

    Sorry to burst your bubble, but Linux long ago passed the optimum complexity vs reliability point.

    1. Re: Linux crashes after updates too. by TheOuterLinux · · Score: 1

      Unless your smart enough like me to make your own distro. I've got PAE version of kernel 4.10 running just fine on a 2008 MacBook and a 2010 Acer Aspire One ZG5. I can't help that there are 64-bit, eye candy dummies out there in the world. No crashes after updates. Sounds like and Ubuntu problem.