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If you’ve been having problems with Microsoft Teams, Azure or Outlook today then you’re not the only one, as cloud users across the world lost access. Countries affected included the US, Europe, Asia Pacific, the Middle East and Africa. Microsoft says that it has mostly recovered from a “networking outage” and it should be business as usual though.

Microsoft has announced that it is currently investigating an outage with its Microsoft Teams app, though the company did not detail how many users have been affected. Earlier today at around 10am Malaysian time, thousands of Microsoft Teams users reported that there are unable to access the app or use any of its features.

After Facebook changed its name to Meta to tell us how much the company cares about Metaverse, Microsoft soon jumped on the bandwagon by announcing Mesh as its own take on the technology concept. For the latter, it focuses on building an interactive platform for virtual experiences inside Microsoft Teams.

Just past midnight, Microsoft finally revealed Windows 11 and there's a lot to talk about. From the user interface to apps, you may have been sleeping through the night but we got you covered. Here is everything you need to know about Windows 11 below!

In light of Zoom taking the spotlight for the wrong reasons and fixing issues on-the-go, it seems that barely anyone has paid any attention to Microsoft Teams at all. We have mentioned them a couple of times before but today, we just found out that the company is actually offering a 6-month free trial to their premium version (for more than a month now).

During this movement control order, one of the essentials to keep you connected to your businesses or studies is a video conferencing tool. However, it must be really hard for you to choose the right one to communicate with your peers while at home, as the video conferencing tools that are currently on the market have their own benefits and drawbacks. Now, it seems like everybody is using Zoom since it’s a popular platform when it comes to video conferencing. 

Like our country, there are a few other countries around the world that have been practising social distancing. This has greatly contributed to the increase in the use of certain productivity tools and cloud services over the past few weeks. Microsoft has seen a spike in users for its cloud services, which the company likely hopes will be maintained even after this crisis.

In the wake restricted movement order in Malaysia, educational institutions are also forced to closed premises. As a result, these institutions now need to conduct lessons differently. Microsoft wants to remind all those in the education community during that it has free software that can help with remote learning.

Last week, Microsoft Corp. has rolled out a new chat-based workspace system called Microsoft Teams. Designed to enhance productivity and communication among the employees, the program offers collaboration capabilities, content and the tools needed for them to work with Microsoft Office 365.