Microsoft Teams is down, and employees are low-key celebrating the Friday miracle.
According to Downdetector.com, a site that tracks online outages, Microsoft Teams began experiencing a major outage at around 11 am ET.
As of about 1:52 pm ET, the communications platform has been offline for over 14,500 workers.
Naturally, those employees took to social media to share their feigned disappointment about the application being down.
Oh no… Microsoft Teams is down on a warm Friday afternoon… pic.twitter.com/pqtKGc39nO
— hayden ↔️ mia (@STAYC__GURL) January 26, 2024
#MicrosoftTeams #msteamsdown #microsoftteamsdown
Ms teams is down
Employee rn: pic.twitter.com/2GwtIDpBAV
— अमन (@Amansingh2358) July 21, 2022
oh noooo microsoft teams is down..? on a friday afternoon..? pic.twitter.com/c7Spub0CiM
— Olivia Morgan (@olivemor) January 26, 2024
Others didn’t try to hide their excitement at all.
Microsoft teams is down pic.twitter.com/e8gC0gLaqb
— 𝙻𝚒𝚌𝚑𝚢𝚢🇭🇹 (@DatOneHaitian) January 26, 2024
Me enjoying not getting messages on Teams because it’s down #MicrosoftTeamsOutage pic.twitter.com/jEksOnibaB
— Chief Snarketing Officer (@katjamb) January 26, 2024
There are a few employees who are actually trying to be productive on a Friday afternoon and have been disrupted by the outage.
microsoft teams not working and crashing the one friday I needed to actually be productive pic.twitter.com/DItXkonreB
— sona (@swiftlydunphy) January 26, 2024
Me trying to be productive.
Microsoft Teams: pic.twitter.com/gwKwqS0n2j— Ashley Feldstein (@ashfeldstein) January 26, 2024
According to Microsoft’s service incidents account on X, the platform is showing some improvement and they’re continuing to monitor the outage in North and South America. The tech company is saying the outage is due to a “networking issue” impacting a part of the Teams service.
We’ve completed the failover in the EMEA region and service telemetry is showing some improvement. The failovers for the North and South America regions are ongoing and we continue to monitor. Additional information can be found under TM710344 in the admin center.
— Microsoft 365 Status (@MSFT365Status) January 26, 2024
Daily Hive has reached out to Microsoft for more details on what the issue is and when it might be resolved.
In the meantime, take Downdetector commenter Bryce’s lead: “Teams down, go home early today.”
TGIF, am I right?
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