Summary
Several thousand Microsoft Outlook users experienced problems accessing their email from Wednesday night to Thursday morning. Microsoft is working on a fix and is monitoring the situation, but some issues continue.
Key Facts
- Many Outlook users had trouble loading their inboxes or signing in.
- Microsoft began investigating the issue on Wednesday night.
- The company attempted a fix but ran into problems with it.
- Microsoft is continuing to deploy a new solution and monitor its success.
- Nearly 2,200 users reported issues to the website Downdetector.
- The exact cause of the outage is not yet known.
- Microsoft has not provided additional information about the issue as of now.
- Outlook was formerly known as Hotmail.
