A huge outage hit Microsoft services Tuesday morning, with users across the globe experiencing problems accessing Outlook, Xbox and Skype. AMAZON WEB SERVICE SUFFERS MAJOR OUTAGE, DISRUPTS EAST COAST INTERNETMajor Microsoft Hotmail/Outlook/Live outage. Microsoft acknowledged the Xbox issues in a statement posted to its Xbox Live status page. FOR THE LATEST TECH FEATURES FOLLOW FOX SCITECH ON FACEBOOKThe Verge reported that the outage lasted an hour and noted that Microsoft services appeared to be back online by 9:30 a.m. EST. Last week a major outage hit Amazon Web Services, disrupting East Coast internet.

Source: Fox News March 07, 2017 15:23 UTC