Microsoft down — live updates on outage affecting 365, Office, Outlook, Teams for more than five hours

2026-01-23T01:59:48.313Z

The latest Microsoft update

"We’re refining our load balancing efforts to optimize performance and reduce potential impact. In parallel, we’re assessing alternative solutions to reinforce recovery and enhance long term stability."

Maybe things are getting better but we're not out of the woods yet.

Status page hasn't crashed in hours though, so that's good. And it reads:

Users may be seeing degraded service functionality or be unable to access multiple Microsoft 365 services