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Microsoft 365 and Outlook suffer widespread outage affecting thousands
Microsoft 365 and Outlook users across the United States experienced significant service disruptions, with outage tracking services recording tens of thousands of reports. The outages occurred during US business hours on Tuesday afternoon.
LSN Malaysia ·
Thousands of Microsoft 365 and Outlook users in the United States faced service interruptions on Tuesday, disrupting email access and productivity tools during peak business hours. Outage monitoring platform Downdetector registered over 97,000 reports of Outlook problems at 3.07am Malaysian time (2.07pm Eastern Time), indicating the scale of the disruption affecting the widely-used email and productivity platform.
The outages appeared to be concentrated among US-based users, with the spike in reports suggesting a substantial portion of the Microsoft ecosystem experienced simultaneous issues. Affected users reported difficulties accessing their email accounts and related Microsoft 365 services, though the exact cause and scope of the technical problems were not immediately clear.
Microsoft did not immediately issue a public statement regarding the outage or provide estimated timeframes for service restoration. Such widespread disruptions to Microsoft's email services can have significant impacts on businesses and organisations that rely heavily on the platform for daily communications and operations.
The incident highlights the ongoing vulnerability of cloud-based services to unexpected outages, despite advances in redundancy and backup systems. Users and organisations using Microsoft 365 services continued to monitor the situation as technical teams worked to resolve the underlying issues.