Windows Phone Marketplace is experiencing global outage! Update: Xbox Live too!

The Windows Phone Marketplace is down globally for some. The outage is throwing erros by the code c101a249 across the globe, when some users try to access the Windows Phone Marketplace.

There’s been some really bad outages lately for some of the online services like Instagram and others. But now, looks like Microsoft is hit with such an outage. The company’s mobile marketplace, Windows Phone Marketplace is facing some serious outage for some users across the globe. The report originally came from WPCentral, and now, we’ve confirmed from our readers over in the UK, the US and also India that the outage is still persistent.

We’ve reached out to Microsoft to know more about this issue. But we’re expecting this to be a very minor outage and Microsoft would act fast to get this issue resolved. We’ll keep you posted about this issue as soon as we get some update from Microsoft!

Update: Xbox Live is also experiencing outage! (Via The Verge)

  • The 4Cast

    We just have another update: Xbox Live is also experiencing this outage!

  • ManikMalhotra

    Aren’t instagram/netflix using ec2? 
    Microsoft Azure, is there like some calamity?

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