Microsoft Suffers Online Service Outage Again, Xbox Live And Skype Affected

Earlier in the month, several of Microsoft’s services went down, which prevented users from logging in and using them. The company made short work of fixing the issue at the time and everyone thought that it was over. Not long after, however, there was another outage that affected practically all of the tech giant’s online platforms.

During the events following the first outage, Microsoft refused to provide specifics on exactly what happened, The Verge reports. The software company simply assured users that it was not going to happen again. Obviously, this was not exactly true.

In the second outage, services like Xbox Live, Skype, OneDrive, and Outlook were temporarily unavailable to users. The outage did not last long, but a second event occurring so close to the first is not a good sign.

The news began to spread once users shared their inability to login to several of the company’s platforms on Twitter and other forums. To be fair, not everyone experienced the same level of trouble and not all had problems signing in to the same services.

With regards to the kind of damage that the outage has caused, it’s not equal on all levels either. For those who are simply trying to log in to Skype or Xbox Live, for example, the issue constitutes little more than a minor inconvenience. Unfortunately, this incident is also affecting Azure, ZDNet reports.

As the main tool in the push by Microsoft into the cloud computing sector, Azure covers a wide range of functionality. When users can’t log into the service, it obviously has a rather large impact on productivity.

Right now, reports are coming in that most of the affected services are back on track and the outage is only affecting a small number of users at this point. Microsoft’s worries might not be over yet, however, as this recent incident will only add to the pressure for the company to reveal exactly what went wrong.