Microsoft down updates: millions of users left unable to access Outlook in ‘global outage’

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A MAJOR outage left Microsoft Outlook users unable to access their Emails but some services have recovered.

Thousands of user complained on social media about the outages, including Downdetector, a popular outage tracking website, which showed a massive spike in reports starting around 9pm UK Time (4pm EST) on Saturday.

The outages also affected Microsoft 365, Teams, Exchange, and the Microsoft Store.

Microsoft has since said “a majority” of its Outlook services are back to normal.

The company said it had “identified a potential cause of impact” at about 10pm as it’s services started to recover in the hours after that.

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