Microsoft investigates widespread Outlook and Teams outage

You've probably noticed that your email may not be working. Microsoft products, including Outlook email services and Copilot, down for tens of thousands of users. The outage has started about noon today. Joining us now is founder and CEO of Tech, a leader of FitTech consultants Ian Marlowe. Ian, good to talk to you. I mean, it's one of those things where you don't realize how many people rely on the same thing until it's down, and then you wonder, was it hacked? What happened? Yes, and the outage is widespread, and it's covered massive geographies, not just in the U.S., but in many areas across, and it's very haphazard to see who's affected versus who's unaffected. Okay, so I can tell you here, anecdotally, we're all without the Microsoft Teams and 365, so it's one of those things when you're running an operation like this, so many people rely on email. The trickle-down effect for something like this is huge. It's very significant, and it's actually not just 365, SharePoint, Teams, Copilot, all of these various things are being affected. And this is where we start to see communications backup plans very much be pushed into effect. People, you know, I have clients all over the country. They are now, you know, utilizing Zoom at the moment. They're utilizing FaceTime on, you know, multi-user meetings. They're sending text messages. They're changing how they're doing, how they're working, because this is so widespread in the application. We currently don't have an update from Microsoft exactly when this is going to be resolved. The, you know, their website is actually showing the next update should be in about half an hour to 45 minutes. The entire community is actively watching very closely. Yeah, one of those things where you realize how much we rely on technology. We got to get back to sending our owls there with our communication. Ian, thank you for the breakdown. We appreciate the latest there. We'll be right back.