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It’s Microsoft’s turn to have a bad day at the office. On Friday morning, Microsoft Office 365 users reported the cloud-based service is down in part or as a whole over the past few hours, according to the Office 365 community forum<\/a>. The timing may be due to the broad launch of \u00a0Office 2013 and Office 365 Home Premium just three days ago, according to ZDnet blogger Ed Bott<\/a>\u00a0in a tweet.<\/p>\n

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I suspect the Office 365 outage is related to making the "new" Office 365 plans available to current subscribers.—
Ed Bott (@edbott) February 01, 2013<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

More here from\u00a0\u00a0Neowin.net<\/a><\/em>\u00a0and Engadget<\/a>\u00a0<\/em>and ZDnet<\/a>.<\/em>
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This snafu — which appears to be resolved — comes a few weeks after a\u00a0Hotmail and Outlook outage<\/a>. Microsoft resolved that issue in a day, \u00a0although judging from comments <\/a>on GigaOM’s<\/em> January 8 post, the problems persisted for some users.<\/p>\n

This has been a bad week for a lot of online services, with both Twitter<\/a> and Amazon.com<\/a> (no not AWS — Amazon.com) experiencing glitches yesterday. But Microsoft faces unique issues as it tries to move more of its productivity applications revenue over to a subscription-based SaaS model without denting\u00a0its juggernaut on-premises Office business. The growing popularity of Google Apps makes this a particularly pressing issue for Microsoft.<\/p>\n

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RT @mvanhorenbeeck<\/a> All in all, the #Office365<\/a> issues got solved relatively quickly. <- Indeed. One hour orso?—
Dave Stork (@dmstork) February 01, 2013<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Microsoft has been contacted for a comment. Story will be updated when they get back.<\/p>\n

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