Microsoft services face major outage in India, probes the issue

More than 3,700 cases of people reporting problems with Microsoft Teams in India were recorded by Downdetector.com.

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Many users were unable to participate in the calls or send messages in MS Teams, and many shared their frustration on Twitter.

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Some users began speculating as to whether the services Microsoft Team was experiencing problems with were related to the tech giant's most recent layoffs.

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One user wrote, "Microsoft Teams is acting up today, I wonder if it has something to do with the layoffs."

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On Wednesday, Microsoft Corp. stated that it was looking into an outage.

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