Microsoft mentioned it was investigating a difficulty that induced its electronic mail and video conferencing instruments to go down for 1000’s of customers early Wednesday.

The tech big reported “points impacting a number of Microsoft 365 companies,” together with its Outlook and Microsoft Teams companies, that serve many companies. Simply earlier than 5 a.m. Jap time, it mentioned it had “remoted the issue to a networking configuration subject,” and that it was engaged on an answer.

“We’ve recognized a possible networking subject and are reviewing telemetry to find out the subsequent troubleshooting steps,” it mentioned.

Microsoft introduced its newest quarterly earnings on Tuesday, reporting its slowest development in six years, with revenue falling 12 % and income rising 2 % from a 12 months earlier; each figures fell under Wall Avenue expectations.

The corporate introduced final week that it could lay off 10,000 staff, lower than 5 % of its payroll.