Is Microsoft Outlook working again?

Welcome back here at 631. So things might be getting better for Microsoft or maybe worse if you were hoping to log off for the day. It is Friday after all. Emails do seem to be coming back following a major outage for hours. Gabriella Primus joins us live to break down the latest update. Hi, Gabby. Felt longer for many, maybe short for a few too, that outage. But yeah, I mean, we're lucky here at the Fox Chicago in the Fox Chicago newsroom because we are Having some email wins here, we got a few, there's a couple of tests sent out and it looks like things are looking a little better. That log jam is starting to break, but you're not alone if you were able to or not able to send some emails yesterday into today. It blindsided millions of people yesterday into this early morning hours. Reports show that nearly 130,000 panic reports flooded DownDetector at its peak with Outlook, Teams, Copilot. Basically, ghosting businesses, schools, and even government offices from here to Japan, and it is still showing Chicago on that down detector website as a hotspot for the outages, at least for this morning. Now, what actually broke? According to Microsoft, automated health checks went off the rails. A bunch of servers essentially threw up their hands and failed, and the backup system designed to bring them right back online didn't immediately kick in. The silver lining here. Microsoft says there is no evidence of a cyber attack, so it wasn't hackers, it was just an internal meltdown. As for when things actually... Go back to normal where we're seeing some improvements already light at the end of the tunnel. Just moments ago, Microsoft announced they've completed recovery actions across parts of the Asia Pacific region and are now rolling those fixes out everywhere else. Still, they warn traffic is being gradually restored. Also saying, however, some users may continue to experience intermittent issues, which pretty much means we're getting there. Expect a few bumps to keep your emails from bouncing into the digital abyss while they are fixing things up. Microsoft has extended that email time out window to a full 48 hours. So that should help things a bit. But again, I sent out some test emails and seems like they went through. I received some emails. So hopefully things are looking up. You know, just when the Internet memes people were doing really good on TikTok and Instagram. Putting out those funny videos with the Microsoft outage, as we always do. Yeah, it just to me, it's so incredible how every business uses this platform. I don't even know of a competing platform. Obviously, we're dependent on one platform. Yes, exactly. But you're right about the Internet memes, the Internet is undefeated in this case. All right, thanks, Gabby.