Microsoft Teams, Outlook outage makes employees celebrate! Check these hilarious memes

Microsoft Teams, Outlook and several other online services were reportedly down a while ago in India.

FILE PHOTO: Smartphone is seen in front of Microsoft logo displayed in this illustration taken, July 26, 2021. REUTERS/Dado Ruvic/Illustration/File Photo (REUTERS)

Microsoft's entire online service platform was unavailable for a while in the late hours of January 25, 2023. Several businesses and users complained of key Microsoft services such as MS Teams, Outlook, Azure, SharePoint, and more not available. Microsoft in an update confirmed that the outage affected all the Microsoft 365 services and was largely due to a potential networking issue. At the time, the company said it was “reviewing telemetry to determine the next troubleshooting steps.”

“Any user serviced by the affected infrastructure may be unable to access multiple Microsoft 365 services,” said the page. However, based on the data from Downdetector and several people who rely on Microsoft 365 services, it seems that the issue has been addressed and all the services are running as expected. However, the outage that latest about an hour gave many people a chance to flock over to Twitter and post some hilarious memes, some of which have got us cracking.

Microsoft Teams, Outlook outage memes on Twitter

Below are some of the funniest memes we found on twitter related to the outage of the MS Teams app, which many businesses use for internal communications. One that caught our attention was this post from Twitter user @Sampath0623, whose post shows people are celebrating in an office after the outage happened, owing to a brief but free work break (at the bottom of the page). Check this and a few other hilarious memes.

POV: #MicrosoftTeams and #Outlook are working again. https://t.co/zqSL9aPvbc pic.twitter.com/snkxCw98OP

— Avnish Rai (@avnishrai_29) January 25, 2023

Microsoft Teams is down- it's like the universe is giving us a day off from work, without even asking for it.🤣🤣🤣
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.#MicrosoftTeams #officememes #Corporate #corporatememes #bombaybees #microsoft #microsoftteamsdown pic.twitter.com/EYZzOM2AI9

— Bombay Bees (@bombay_bees) January 25, 2023

Few days after laying off 10k+ employees, Microsoft is having a major outage across most of its service like Teams, Outlook, Azure, XBox Live, Minecraft, Spectrum.

Hope Microsoft won't have to recall any of the laid-off engineers like Twitter did 😅#MicrosoftTeams

— Deepak (@HQdeepak) January 25, 2023

Employees who are working from home today:
#MicrosoftTeams pic.twitter.com/TGNTWvPh1x

— The Soशीal Era (@thesoshealera) January 25, 2023

Me hearing that MS Teams and Outlook are down #microsoftteams pic.twitter.com/vHpr3FLGdw

— Alex Carroll is on Mastodon @Phalex88@mastodonapp (@Alex_Careers) January 25, 2023

#MicrosoftTeams

Microsoft teams has stopped which means work has stopped

Everyone: pic.twitter.com/BslPGQilqg

— Trojan_Horse (@Sampath0623) January 25, 2023