@@ -1,1 +1,1 @@ - +Video-calling service Zoom appears to be experiencing a major global outage, leaving thousands of users around the world unable to join conferences.<br>Problems started at around 15:17 BST (10.17 EDT) and are ongoing, according to the website Downdetector, which monitors website outages.<br>Users in the US and the UK were both reporting being unable to join or start conferences via the website or the app.<br>The company's is reporting 'degraded performance' for users of its Web Portal.<br>'We have received reports of a subset of users being unable to access to Zoom Web Portal.<br><br>We are currently investigating and will provide updates as we have them,' a note on the site posted at 15:38 BST (10:38 EDT) reads.<br>A further update posted at 15.59 BST states: 'We have resolved the issue causing a subset of users to be unable to access to [https://www.bbc.co.uk/search/?q=Zoom%20Web Zoom Web] Portal.We will continue to monitor and provide updates as we have them.'<br>The outage comes as millions of Brits have been forced to work from home due to the national rail strikes.<br> Video-calling service Zoom appears to be experiencing a major global outage, leaving thousands of users around the world unable to join conferences <br> Downdetector UK tweeted the news that Zoom was experiencing problems via its official Twitter account<br> Problems started at around 15:17 BST and are ongoing, according to the website Downdetector, which monitors website outages<br> Thousands in the UK claim they are unable to join or start conferences via the website or the app.<br> The US also appears to be experiencing problems, with New York, Chicago, Washington and Boston highlighted as hotspots on Downdetector's map<br> Numbers are much higher in the US, with over 13,500 reports of issues<br> Zoom users in both the UK and the US took to Twitter to express their frustration (and in some cases delight) at the outage.<br>'Zoom is down and honestly we should just take the day off,' one user wrote.<br>'What a great way to start my morning at work, zoom being down,' wrote a US-based user, with an image of an upside down smiley face.<br>'Zoom being down just in time for everyone's 9:00AM staff meetings is a mood,' wrote another.<br>However, the glee was evident in some of the messages posted on the social [https://twitter.com/search?q=network network].<br>'Zoom being down on a day you have a meeting is the closest thing an adult will get to a snow day ever again,' one user wrote.<br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> Zoom users in both the UK and the US took to Twitter to express their frustration (and in some cases delight) at the outage<br>It is unclear what is causing the issue, and whether it is related to other widespread internet outages affecting websites and services including Outlook and Cloudflare - a content delivery network upon which much of the internet relies.<br>Microsoft's Outlook email platform was hit by service issue this afternoon making it inaccessible to some users.<br>The company confirmed the problem and said it was working to fix it, with no other services currently appearing to be impacted.<br>According to [https://network.changemakers.com/profiles/pivobi6130 Microsoft]'s own service status website, some Outlook users 'may be unable to access their mailboxes via any connection method' and may encounter 'delays sending, receiving or accessing email messages'.<br> Microsoft's Outlook email platform has been hit by service issues making it inaccessible to some users<br> According to the website monitoring service Down Detector, affected users are seeing messages telling them they have been unable to connect to a server, and are struggling to connect to the service from across a range of devices<br><div class="art-ins mol-factbox floatRHS sciencetech" data-version="2" id="mol-e7480bb0-f157-11ec-8215-5fed1a0e65ab" website now Zoom! Video conferencing service goes down around the world