Microsoft had a midweek meltdown on Wednesday as a chunk of its productivity suite fell out of the cloud.
The problems kicked off around noon UK time, when users found themselves unable to access Office.com. The company confirmed users' pain via its social media mouthpiece shortly afterwards.
A few hours later, Microsoft said : "We've identified a recent change is contributing to impact." It pushed out a rollback.
After another hour or so, the company confirmed that the "reversion" of the change was complete and that the incident had been resolved. It added : "Users may need to refresh their browsers to experience relief."
There was a little more detail in the Microsoft 365 Admin Center. According to the console, the incident lasted a little more than four hours and was limited to orga