status page<\/a>, the company provided details of frustrated efforts to fix its malfunctioning systems and route user traffic away from affected servers.<\/p>\n\n\n\nIt said an investigation into the incident had found \u201ca core process on the affected servers is becoming overwhelmed, which causes the servers to stop responding and contributes to the capacity loss.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Microsoft said that it was trying to \u201cpinpoint the underlying cause of the traffic influx,\u201d adding \u201cwe are not aware of any malicious activity that is causing this incident.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In the US, the outage led Workhorse Group Inc., a US-based truck and bus manufacturer, to postpone its earnings release. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
School districts, universities and hospitals were among those warning that communications might be limited.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n
PVH Corp., the apparel conglomerate that owns the Calvin Klein and Tommy Hilfiger brands, announced Thursday in internal company emails and stock exchange filings that it would cut about 4% of its global workforce. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Some of the difficult conversations, scheduled to start in Asia on Friday morning, did not take place because of the outages, leaving employees uncertain of their future at the company, according to a person familiar with the matter, who requested anonymity to describe private matters. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
PVH did not immediately respond to a request for comment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Users in more than 70 countries reported problems accessing Microsoft\u2019s products, according to Downdetector. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Services for technologists, including cybersecurity software, file-sharing services and administrator tools, were also disrupted. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
The company sells those products, along with workplace staples like Word and Excel, in a bundle under the M365 brand.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Traders in Singapore, Indian brokerages and officials in Tokyo all reported issues with Microsoft services on Friday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Disruption was widespread across Japan\u2019s government. The finance ministry said in a statement that it had been unable to receive emails for most of the day. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Government ministries resorted to pinning up paper notices to inform journalists about daily schedules because of the email outage.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Staffers at the Reserve Bank of Australia were also impacted, with Outlook down across departments at the bank, but critical operations running as normal. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
In New Zealand, immigration officials paused the processing of all visa applications due to the outage.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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