 Microsoft investigates Teams outage as services drop for thousands of users.

Microsoft Corp's messaging application MS Teams was down for thousands of users on Thursday,

According to an outage tracking website, and the company said it was investigating the disruption.

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The Redmond, Washington-based company pinpointed the disruption "on a recent deployment that contained a broken connection to an internal storage service"

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The Redmond did not disclose the number of users affected by the outage.

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There were more than 4,800 incidents of people who reported issues with Microsoft Teams on Wednesday,

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Downdetector.com, which tracks outages by collating status reports from source including user-submitted errors on its platform.

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More than 1,457 users are currently affected, Downdetector said.

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The web monitoring firm also showed there were more than 150 incidents of people reporting issues with Microsoft Office 365.

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