Microsoft suffers another outage just weeks after global IT meltdown that caused flight chaos and train disruption
MICROSOFT 365 and Azure have suffered an outage which has brought down a number of other services, including Minecraft.
Thousands of reports have flooded in to outage site DownDetector reporting issues with both Microsoft services, as well as the popular Minecraft game.
Many Microsoft users have reported issues with connecting to the Microsoft 265 admin centre and opening the Service Health Status page which is supposed to help user during outages.
Affected users are reportedly experiencing issues with other Microsoft services like Outlook, Entra and Power Apps.
The issue also appears to be affecting airports, such as Heathrow, the biggest airport in the UK.
Heathrow Airport said there was a "Microsoft issue impacting people globally" and that it was "unsure when there will be a fix".
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Microsoft has said it is investigating the issue.
In a statement the Microsoft 365 server status account on X (formerly Twitter), the company wrote: "We're currently investigating access issues and degraded performance with multiple Microsoft 365 services and features.
"More information can be found under MO842351 in the admin center."
It comes a little over a week since Microsoft last made headlines for a worldwide mega-outage due to a faulty CrowdStrike update.
The outage, which affected hundreds of services on an unprecedented scale, grounded flights, disrupted emergency services, halted hospital appointments, newsrooms, television networks and businesses worldwide.
This is a developing story.