Microsoft services outage blamed on routine maintenance February 2, 2013 by admin Tweet According to Microsoft, the outage was based on routine maintenance that went awry. We don’t know exactly what happened but the tweet indicates that all services have been restored to normal. Read more… Neowin Related Posts:Microsoft says the early June outage to its services…AT&T offers a vague explanation for today's…Xbox Gaming services slowly coming back online after…Microsoft mitigates another major outage, this time…Microsoft is trying to fix yet another outage that…