Microsoft hit by massive outage across Europe days after global IT meltdown

FILE - This April 12, 2016 file photo shows the Microsoft logo in Issy-les-Moulineaux, outside Paris, France. Microsoft took five hours to resolve a major outage of its workplace applications on Monday, but has not clarified what caused the outage. The company said the outage, which affected users??? ability to log into Office 365 applications, began early evening Monday Eastern time. Microsoft did not reply to questions Tuesday, Sept. 29, 2020 about what caused the outage, but said on its service-status Twitter account that it had identified a ???recent change??? that caused problems. (AP Photo/Michel Euler, File)
Microsoft is suffering its second outage in less than two weeks (Picture: AP)

Microsoft is investigating a second IT meltdown after millions of computers went offline less than two weeks ago.

Minecraft, Microsoft 365, Microsoft Teams and Microsoft Azure are affected by the outage, according to DownDetector, which monitors IT outages across the globe.

Thousands of reports have been made since 1pm today, but the issue is yet to be resolved.

Outlook – the email and calendar system – is also down for users. People have also complained that they cannot access their email on the app or in the browser.

It is understood that the outage is only affecting Europe, rather than a worldwide outage.

Microsoft 365 said in a statement: ‘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.’

People have already taken to social media to complain about the outage.

‘Nothing like a Microsoft outage in the morning to really get your day going,’ one used tweeted.

The company is currently grappling with the fallout from the CrowdStrike outage on July 19.

Airports, banks and supermarkets were among the major institutions which saw services disrupted due to a flawed update,

In the UK, the NHS, Sky News and British rail operators were suffering disruption linked to malfunctioning anti-hacking software.

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