Is Microsoft down?
microsoft.com · Work & productivity
Microsoft has recorded 100.0% uptime over the last 3 days, with no outage. It answers our checks in 399 ms on average.
No problems detected
Microsoft answered our last automated check normally, 9 minutes ago. If it is not working for you, the problem is most likely local - Your connection, your DNS resolver, a cached page, or an extension.
Microsoft problem reports in the last 24 hours
Counted in 15-minute buckets from reports submitted on this site. This is a user signal - A tall bar means people are complaining, not that our check failed.
No reports in the last 24 hours.
If Microsoft is not working for you, tell us and the chart starts here.
Response time from our automated checks
The last 24 checks of https://www.microsoft.com/en-us from our network. Bar height is the response time; the tallest bar is the slowest.
- Answered normally
- Slow to answer
- No usable answer
Having a problem with Microsoft?
Tell us what is not working. Reports go straight onto the 24-hour chart above and help other people see a problem before any company admits to one. 0 reports in the last 24 hours.
About Microsoft outages
Microsoft sits at number 15 on the worldwide traffic ranking with about 329.6M organic visits a month, and the address it resolves to belongs to Microsoft Corporation. Microsoft publishes 2 addresses for the name, reachable over IPv6 as well as IPv4.
Name service for microsoft.com is operated by Azure DNS, with the registration held through MarkMonitor Inc., and dated to 1991. Microsoft.com sends an HSTS header, so browsers refuse it over plain HTTP. Mail for microsoft.com is handled by Microsoft 365. The certificate microsoft.com presented to us was issued by Microsoft Corporation, covering 163 names, with 84 days left on it at first check, and negotiated over TLSv1.3. Our first check of microsoft.com returned HTTP 200 in 394 ms, of which 83 ms was name resolution and 7 ms the connection. The request to microsoft.com passed through 2 redirects before it settled on https://www.microsoft.com/en-us. Those figures are the baseline this page measures microsoft.com against from now on, every 20 minutes.
What to do if Microsoft is not working for you
Is it them or you?
Our last check reached microsoft.com normally, from a different network, resolver and route than yours. If it is broken for you, the fault is most likely local or too narrow for a single probe to see. Our next automated check runs within 20 minutes and this page updates with it.
The first thing worth trying
Check whether sign-in itself is the problem. If one product fails, it is that product. If you are being asked to sign in again everywhere, the identity layer is the fault and everything will return together.
How work & productivity services typically fail
The desktop app keeps working while the web version fails, or the reverse. Mail appears to send and sits in the outbox. Meeting links fail to join while the calendar entry is perfectly visible. The rest of the steps, and why this category breaks the way it does, are on our work & productivity status page, with more background in what downtime actually costs.
The link below unfurls into a live card showing the verdict, so whoever you send it to sees the evidence rather than your word for it.
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Microsoft measured against its peers
How it compares with other work & productivity services
Over the last 30 days Microsoft ranks 9 of 13 work & productivity services we monitor, measured on recorded uptime. The category averages 100.0%, and Microsoft sits at 100.0%. The steadiest in this group is Google Search.
On speed, Microsoft answers our checks in about 399 ms against a category average of 374 ms - Slower than its peers. Response time is not availability, but a service drifting well above its own normal is often the first sign of trouble.
What the last 24 checks looked like
Across the most recent 24 checks, the quickest response was 159 ms and the slowest 796 ms, against a 30-day average of 399 ms. The chart above plots each one, so a widening spread is visible before it becomes an outage.
All figures are our own measurements, taken every 20 minutes from one network. What that can and cannot see is set out in the methodology, and every work & productivity service is listed on the category page.
The server that answered Mostly hidden
- IP address
- 23.48.10.36 and 2 others
- Server
- Hidden until you sign in
- Powered by
- Hidden until you sign in
- Content type
- Hidden until you sign in
- Declared size
- Hidden until you sign in
- Transport and HSTS
- Hidden until you sign in
Five more fields about the server behind microsoft.com.
Free, one click with Google, and nothing is posted or shared. We ask because the lookups behind this cost us real requests to other people’s servers.
Read from our last sweep of microsoft.com, not requested when you opened this page.
Certificate Mostly hidden
- Status
- Valid
- Issued to
- Hidden until you sign in
- Issued by
- Hidden until you sign in
- Valid from
- Hidden until you sign in
- Expires
- Hidden until you sign in
- Protocol and cipher
- Hidden until you sign in
Who issued it, what it covers and exactly when it expires.
Free, one click with Google, and nothing is posted or shared. We ask because the lookups behind this cost us real requests to other people’s servers.
An expired certificate stops browsers loading a site entirely while the server itself stays perfectly healthy, which is why we track it beside the uptime figure.
.Microsoft status: Common questions
Is Microsoft down right now?
Microsoft is up and responding normally. This page is refreshed by an automated check that runs every 20 minutes from an independent network, and by reports from visitors.
Why can I not reach Microsoft when you say it is up?
Because an outage can be partial. Our check runs from one network and asks for one page. Your problem may be regional, may affect only the mobile app, or may be local to your connection, DNS resolver or browser cache.
How reliable is Microsoft?
Microsoft has been reachable for 100.0% of the last 3 days we have measured, with 0 seconds of recorded downtime.
Does Microsoft have an official status page?
Microsoft does not publish a public status page, which is why independent monitoring and user reports are the only external signal available during an incident.
Microsoft discussion
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