Office Workers Are Jokingly Urging Microsoft Not To Fix Global Outage So They Can Skip Friday Work
"Please take your sweet time, Microsoft," said a netizen.
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Netizens around the world are jokingly urging Microsoft not to rush to restore its services, saying the outage affecting Outlook and other productivity tools has freed them from their Friday morning workload
As of 10.30am this morning, 13 November, several Microsoft services remained disrupted following user reports of an outage as early as 1.30am.
According to Downdetector, Microsoft 365, the company's cloud-based subscription product that provides access to Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, and Teams, recorded a peak of 48,000 outage reports at 2am.
Microsoft Store also recorded a peak of around 11,500 outage reports at approximately the same time.
Checks at 10.30am today found that Outlook, Microsoft's email service, remained inaccessible through a browser. An email sent using the app also failed to reach its intended recipient.
The Guardian reported that the outage has disrupted Australian government agencies, hospitals, schools, and businesses.
In Australia, the local medical association said some hospitals and health clinics were experiencing clerical issues, but there had been no impact on patient care.
"We've had some facilities return to using paper for scripts because authentication to get into lots of prescribing software requires multifactor verification, which requires you to be able to access your Microsoft-supported email," said Australian Medical Association (AMA) president Dr Michael Bonning.
Microsoft is reportedly struggling to fix the global outage
According to BBC, services including Teams, Outlook, and Microsoft's artificial intelligence software Copilot have been affected by "connectivity problems".
Microsoft attributed the outage to a number of servers "being unexpectedly unavailable", straining its remaining systems.
"We appreciate our customers' patience while we work to restore services as soon as possible," said a Microsoft spokesperson.
The company later warned that some services that had been restored "can become unresponsive again", adding that customers "in any region" could be affected.
Meanwhile, on Threads, netizens have jokingly urged Microsoft not to rush to fix the outage, saying they do not want to work since it is already Friday
Here are some posts capturing the cheeky mood on the final working day of the week:
