BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (WBRC) – A Microsoft outage affected users around the world Thursday afternoon, and businesses across Alabama faced difficulties. Microsoft is investigating the cause, and access had not been fully restored as of Thursday night.
Downdetector, a website that tracks outages, said that at one point 130,000 people reported problems with their email accounts. Another 47,000 people reported problems with all Microsoft 365 products.
Alabama users describe disruptions
Kathryn Fluker, an educator in central Alabama, had planned a book fair for middle school students. She first had to work out why she could not access her email…