Microsoft had failures on SkyDrive and Outlook

Problems have affected the mail and online storage service from Microsoft last Wednesday. The availability of tools has been restored since. The failure would have concerned a small number of users, depending on the supplier.

 Wednesday, August 14, around 10 Am (New York), the online service Microsoft's SkyDrive has encountered problems that have been solved four hours later. Email in Outlook line was also affected and the supplier has more time to replace the synchronization of messages with mobile devices. The application management contacts underwent associated disturbances, changes in the Address Book are not properly transmitted to Hotmail. The "Service Status" page on which Microsoft reported known problems indicated Friday morning that services were operating normally.

According to Microsoft, these disruptions have affected only a small number of users who have not been specified number. Last week, the editor of Redmond had publicly disclosed the rate of availability of the Office 365 suite (Exchange, SharePoint, Lync and Office Web Apps) in the cloud, so far only sent to users. These amounted to 99.9% covering both Business, Government and Education editions.