A service outage affecting Microsoft Teams has prevented certain users from accessing the program and restricted their capabilities.
Around 11 a.m. Eastern Time on Friday, the outage started. In the afternoon, there were increasing reports of technical problems, which peaked just before 2 p.m. By then, over 14,500 service issues had been reported, according to statistics from outage tracker DownDetector. The tracker shows that by 5:44 p.m., there were just about 1,100 reports left.
Microsoft did not answer to a request for comment from CBS MoneyWatch right away.
67% of the issues that users reported had to do with the Teams app, 25% had to do with service connection issues, and 8% had to do with website issues, according to DownDetector. Reports of delayed messages and issues with graphic presentations were among the complaints made by users who were unable to utilize the service.