Google Calendar Access Is Disrupted
June 30 2016 - 2:20PM
Dow Jones News
Google Calendar crashed for many users Thursday morning, a
hiccup for the tech giant's popular productivity tools that could
hurt its pitch to potential enterprise customers.
Alphabet Inc.'s Google said the outage affected consumer and
corporate accounts that pay for its services, showing a page titled
"server error" when users tried to access their calendars. The
company said service was restored for some customers around 11:30
a.m. ET and that it expected a full resolution "in the near
future."
The extent of the disruption wasn't clear, though even a
fraction of Google users would be millions of people. Google's
email service, often used in conjunction with calendar, has more
than a billion users.
Big tech companies such as Google, Facebook Inc. and Apple Inc.
are hit with software outages a few times a year. Most of the
problems are resolved within a few hours.
Still, sudden turbulence in their products prompt users to voice
questions or displeasure on social media, capturing just how much
these digital services have invaded everyday life.
For Google, outages take on increasing prominence as the company
in recent years has muscled in on Microsoft Corp.'s turf of
workplace productivity tools such as email, calendar and document
creation. News Corp's The Wall Street Journal, for example, in the
past year switched from using Microsoft's Outlook program to Google
Calendar and its web-based Gmail software for email.
Write to Jack Nicas at jack.nicas@wsj.com
(END) Dow Jones Newswires
June 30, 2016 14:05 ET (18:05 GMT)
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