It seems like there is a 3DEXPERIENCE outage for the solidworks connected authentication system. I have been using Solidworks Connected for a few months now and when launching SolidWorks, an empty blue 3DEXPERIENCE Platform window pops up (what would normally load into the login window) and the top bar says "Connecting to 3DEXPERIENCE" permanently. I get prompted every few minutes to try to reconnect to 3DEXPERIENCE. Disabling the Windows 11 Defender Firewall has no affect.