Many Microsoft online services appear to be down for some, including Xbox.com, Outlook.com, and Office365.com
Microsoft is currently experiencing what appears to be a global outage for many of its online services, although users from different regions are varying sets of issues. The issue appears to be linked to the company’s DNS servers not resolving, but the cause is still not known.
We have seen reports of Xbox.com (as well as Xbox Live), Outlook.com, Office365.com, MSDN, TechNet, sites hosted on Windows Azure, and even Microsoft.com. Reports are conflicting, however, as visitors to these sites are seeing them either work fine, or fluctuate between working and not working.
One site that has been down consistently for us is Xbox.com (we’re now getting a generic error that the site can’t be found):
Outlook.com and Office365.com, on the other hand, were down briefly and then came back. Both services are, however, still down for other users.
It’s currently not clear if a Windows Azure outage is to blame for the issues, or if it is merely also a victim.
We have contacted Microsoft about the issue and will update this article if we hear back.
More to follow.
