SEATTLE _ Parts of Microsoft's Outlook, Skype and Xbox Live services were down for some users Tuesday, marking the second big outage for the company this month.
Xbox Live's website showed that games were working normally but some core services were down. Twitters users, many of them gamers, vented frustration after having trouble logging on to their accounts.
DownDetector, a site that tracks when services go out, showed spikes in problems for both Outlook and Xbox Live on Tuesday afternoon.
The breadth of the outage was not immediately clear, though many reports said it was affecting primarily the East Coast and parts of Europe.
Earlier this month, Outlook 365, Xbox Live and Skype went down for several hours in parts of the world.
Microsoft said in a statement that it was working to fix the problem.
"We are aware that some users are experiencing difficulties signing in to some services. Engineers are working to fully resolve this as soon as possible," the company said.
