Microsoft Outlook outage affects tens of thousands of users

Microsoft Corp. said Saturday night that services had been restored after a glitch that left tens of thousands of users without access to their Outlook accounts and other programs. The company is investigating the cause of the outage.

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Yesterday, around midnight Moscow time, a failure was registered in the work of Microsoft Outlook, Microsoft Exchange, Microsoft Teams, Microsoft 365 and Microsoft Azure services. More than 37,000 users complained about problems in Outlook, according to Downdetector, another 24,000 users reported problems in Microsoft 365, while there were about 150 reports of interruptions in Teams.

According to Downdetector, the problems with the above Microsoft services were mainly concentrated in New York, Chicago and Los Angeles. Complaints about the inability to access Outlook were also published by users on social networks. By now, the operation of all affected Microsoft services has been restored, according to the company itself.