Neowin News Feed for: Downtime

Microsoft 365? More like Microsoft 404

Usama Jawad — Sat, 11 Oct 2025 01:00:01 +0000

Microsoft 365 has experienced numerous outages this year, with two happening within the span of two days. It's clear that the company needs to improve in this area. Read more...

Some Microsoft 365 services may be down due to a global outage, first details released

Sayan Sen — Fri, 04 Jul 2025 08:08:01 +0000

Microsoft has confirmed that certain M365 services like Forms have gone down. The company is investigating and has released some preliminary details. Read more...

Another outage hits Microsoft as Teams file sharing goes down

Sayan Sen — Tue, 15 Apr 2025 12:24:02 +0000

Microsoft has confirmed that some functions like file sharing on Teams are currently down and out. Preliminary details have been shared. Read more...

Google's 'uninterruptible' power supply ironically interrupted Cloud with a six hour outage

Sayan Sen — Tue, 15 Apr 2025 08:48:01 +0000

Google Cloud was hit with a six-hour-long outage at the end of the last month when its uninterruptible power supply system failed. Read more...

Apple is aware of a Screen Time issue and says it'll issue an update fixing it

Paul Hill — Mon, 31 Jul 2023 21:08:01 +0000

Apple has acknowledged a bug in Screen Time that causes parental settings to be reset. The company has confirmed that they are working on a solution, but no specific timeline has been provided. Read more...

Instagram fixes bug that locked users out of their accounts

Karthik Mudaliar — Tue, 01 Nov 2022 11:28:02 +0000

A weird bug was locking out users from their accounts and serving them with suspension notices even if no community guidelines were violated. Instagram has since worked on the issue and fixed it. Read more...

Instagram is facing multiple glitches worldwide, company "looking into it"

Karthik Mudaliar — Mon, 31 Oct 2022 15:54:01 +0000

Instagram users are reporting that they are unable to log in, losing account access, receiving suspension notices and content getting deleted. Instagram has tweeted that it is looking into the matter. Read more...

Here are the five biggest tech surprises of 2020

Usama Jawad — Sun, 27 Dec 2020 14:00:01 +0000

2020 ends in a few days, which makes now the perfect time to take a look back at some events and happenings in the tech landscape which caught us off-guard, for better or for worse. Read more...

Free eBook: How Real-Time Data Center Visibility Drives Savings and Efficiency

News Staff — Sun, 24 Mar 2019 18:00:01 +0000

In our always-on world, data center downtime is not an option, unfortunately, inefficient data center policies can mean that continuous availability comes at an unnecessarily high price. Read more...

Aussies take mobile network to the brink in second free data day

Matt Blowes — Mon, 04 Apr 2016 08:00:01 +0000

For the second time in two months, customers of the Australian mobile network Telstra have taken advantage of a free data day. Despite collectively using 2,686 terabytes of data, not all were happy. Read more...

Major outage hits Australia's largest mobile network Telstra [Update]

Matt Blowes — Tue, 09 Feb 2016 04:06:01 +0000

A major outage to the Australia's largest mobile network, Telstra, has left millions of customers without access to phone and data service. Currently, the service is still sporadically having issues. Read more...

Microsoft OneDrive is down worldwide [Update]

Andy Weir — Wed, 21 Oct 2015 17:37:39 +0000

There are widespread reports from users around the world unable to access their cloud storage on Microsoft OneDrive. Access has now been restored to some, but the problem persists for many others. Read more...

Apple Music, Beats Radio, iTunes, App Store and other Apple services hit by outages

Andy Weir — Tue, 21 Jul 2015 16:48:34 +0000

Nominees for the MTV Video Music Awards should have been announced on Beats 1 today. Instead, the radio station is down, along with Apple Music, iTunes, the App Store, Apple TV and other key services. Read more...

Xbox Live issues affecting Call of Duty, Xbox Fitness and Xfinity On Demand

Steven Johns — Fri, 15 May 2015 08:14:36 +0000

A number of different Xbox services are down, including Xbox Fitness and Call of Duty for Xbox 360. There are no details on exactly what is happening, but Microsoft appears aware of the issues. Read more...

Google Compute Engine is down [Update]

Steven Johns — Thu, 19 Feb 2015 08:46:17 +0000

Google's Compute Engine, a central part of Google's Cloud Platform, is down without any specific details being posted by Google besides "Multiple services reporting issues" being listed. Read more...

PlayStation Network suffers outage; ‘Lizard Squad' claims responsibility

Andy Weir — Mon, 08 Dec 2014 11:26:01 +0000

After hacker group Lizard Squad claimed responsibility for two Xbox Live outages last week, the same group has taken credit for bringing down Sony's PlayStation Network today. Read more...

Forums turned offline for now [Update: We're back]

Steven Parker — Thu, 06 Jun 2013 11:19:53 +0000

As we prepare to upgrade to Invision Board 3.4.5 we need to make changes to our huge (8+GB) database, and that requires among other things a database conversion. Read more...

GoDaddy.com offers one month credit for downtime

John Callaham — Wed, 12 Sep 2012 16:28:03 +0000

The GoDaddy.com domain name and website hosting service is giving its many customers a one month credit as compensation for the downtime that hit the company on Monday. Read more...

Twitter: a "double-whammy" caused latest outage

John Callaham — Fri, 27 Jul 2012 01:17:57 +0000

In a post on Twitter's blog, the social networking service says that a "infrastructural double-whammy" was the reason behind the latest extended outage for tens of millions of users. Read more...

Twitter web site down; mobile apps don't work [Update: It's back up ..and down ...and up]

John Callaham — Thu, 21 Jun 2012 16:28:56 +0000

The Twitter.com website is currently experiencing some downtime with users in the US unable to access the social networking web site. The mobile apps that connect to Twitter don't work either. Read more...

Windows Azure gets hit with extended down time

John Callaham — Thu, 01 Mar 2012 23:51:49 +0000

Microsoft has admitted that there was an issue with its Windows Azure cloud-based services earlier this week that resulted in Azure experiencing downtime for nearly 10 hours. Read more...

Facebook down for ten minutes, Anonymous claims responsibility

Owen Williams — Thu, 26 Jan 2012 01:25:02 +0000

It looks like Facebook may have been down for the first time that we can remember, with the site being unresponsive. AnonSec has claimed responsibility, however, is it just a coincedence? Read more...

BlackBerry services offline in Europe, Middle East, and Africa[Update]

James Woodfin — Mon, 10 Oct 2011 18:07:59 +0000

BlackBerry services are down, once again. For most users in Europe, the Middle East, and Africa, email, messaging, and web are unavailable, with little word from RIM on the status of things. Read more...

Facebook experiencing widespread issues; down for some

Owen Williams — Thu, 11 Aug 2011 03:29:33 +0000

Users flood Twitter as Facebook goes down either entirely or partially for many users, however, the service is still accessible for some Read more...

Blogger still down; 30 hours of posts lost [Update: back up!]

Michael Collado — Fri, 13 May 2011 08:05:47 +0000

Google's blogging and online publishing service, Blogger, has been suffering from something that is all too familiar to one of its main rivals, Tumblr: the service has been down since around half past noon PDT... Read more...

Twitter woes cause site to disable new Twitter design [update]

Michael Collado — Wed, 06 Apr 2011 00:11:00 +0000

Twitter has been experiencing ongoing problems with displaying home timelines today and has continuously been disabling features. At first, the company decided to revert back to its old design; then, just a few minutes later,... Read more...

Skype, Twitter suffer outages

Matthew Jones — Thu, 23 Dec 2010 00:18:31 +0000

On the internet, no one can hear you scream. At least not if Skype is offline, as was the case for several hours today. Users around the globe began reporting problems signing in to the popular... Read more...

Neowin Forums currently being upgraded

Simon Andrews — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 20:40:00 +0000

Neowin is currently upgrading its forums to Invision Power Board 3. During this time, the forums will be inaccessible. This upgrade started at 8:30 GMT, and we expect it to continue well into tonight. By... Read more...

Neowin forums return

Simon Andrews — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 03:43:05 +0000

The Neowin Forums have returned to their online status. Despite a weekend of almost nonstop work by myself, Dave, Tim, Rob, and multiple outside sources from Invision and elsewhere, we were unable to make Invision... Read more...

Google Apps Customers Miffed Over Downtime

Thu, 29 Mar 2007 05:20:52 +0000

Google Incorported is having problems keeping its uptime pledge to some paying customers of its Google Apps suite of hosted services. Little over a month after introducing Google Apps' Premier version, which includes a 99.99%... Read more...

Xbox Live Scheduled Downtime for October 17th

Todd Tanner — Mon, 16 Oct 2006 07:42:18 +0000

As JediXAngel pointed out in the forums, Microsoft is planning on taking down the Xbox Live service for the entire day on Tuesday October 17th. The downtime will begin at 12 midnight Pacific time on... Read more...

Neowin Downtime

Fred Derf — Wed, 02 Aug 2006 02:29:21 +0000

The staff at Neowin would like to thank you for your continued patience as we work to improve the site. As you probably know, we are continually working on the performance of the site... Read more...

Neowin Related: Downtime tomorrow

Steven Parker — Mon, 28 Nov 2005 09:38:16 +0000

On Tuesday 29th of November we will be closing both neowin and neowin5.net so that we can shift all the data to the new servers. This transition will take place early Tuesday morning on Central... Read more...

Updated: ActiveWin.com downtime

Steven Parker — Mon, 12 May 2003 15:21:34 +0000

ActiveWin has been unreachable for me since I last checked late Saturday, I caught up with Bob Stein, AW's frontman, and he was able to offer this response. We wish them a speedy recovery because... Read more...

Dot.tk: Blames System Flaw on downtime

Tue, 07 Jan 2003 12:29:37 +0000

Thanks to DrEaMiNgWeB for mailing us with this bit of news. For all of you out there with dot.tk domain names...., Dot.tk one of the largest free url redirection... Read more...

Geocities Downtime

Thu, 02 May 2002 18:33:48 +0000

Just in from those nice people at geocities. "Dear Yahoo! GeoCities Member, GeoCities will be performing scheduled maintenance starting Friday, May 17th, 2002 at 9:00 pm PST (GMT-7). Service will... Read more...

Warp2search back online after downtime

Steven Parker — Mon, 29 Apr 2002 16:03:09 +0000

Degger sends me notice that our affiliate and friends from Warp2search are back ! Below is an excerpt from the announcement o their site: What has happend the last days? Well,... Read more...

Downtime expected

Steven Parker — Sat, 15 Sep 2001 21:25:08 +0000

Our host let us know that we should let everyone know that after speaking with the data center where our server is located, there will be some down time while traffic is re-routed to other... Read more...

Neowin downtime explained

Steven Parker — Sun, 09 Sep 2001 10:06:26 +0000

There has been alot of speculation as to what caused our downtime, I am posting this to end that speculation. We experienced database errors when we moved to the new server. Moving an mysql database... Read more...