Microsoft Outlook Outage Disrupts Outlook Services for Thousands

Microsoft Outlook Down: Thousands of users using Microsoft 365, Microsoft Outlook and other services around the world faced outages on Saturday (March 1). Many people reported problems with Outlook emails. Due to the outage, Microsoft Outlook of users around the world crashed, due to which they were unable to log in to their accounts.

At the same time, the company has responded to the outage and said that a solution will be found soon.

Microsoft outage leaves thousands of users without access to email and apps

Users are continuously reporting outages on social media handle X. According to Downdetector, more than 37 thousand complaints related to Outlook, more than 24 thousand complaints related to Microsoft 365 services and others were registered.

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Flood of complaints on X

Users around the world are unable to use some other services including Microsoft 365 Outlook. Many people are complaining about this on the social media handle 'X'.

One user wrote- 'Outlook/Microsoft Exchange appears to be down, is anyone else signed out?'

Another user wrote- 'I changed my password 3 times until I checked on x that outlook was down.'

Microsoft engaged in finding the root of the outage

Meanwhile, the company said on the social media platform X that there is a problem in the services. Immediately after getting this information, Microsoft started looking for the root of this outage. In its post, the company has asked the users to go to MO1020913 in the Admin Center for more information related to this problem. The relief is that the company said that efforts are being made to fix this problem.

Microsoft assured a quick solution

Meanwhile, Microsoft has confirmed the outage and assured a quick solution. The Microsoft 365 status account posted on X, 'We have identified the likely cause of the problem and reverted the suspect code to minimize the impact.

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Most of the affected services are recovering due to our change - Company

The company further wrote, 'Our telemetry shows that most of the affected services are recovering after our change. We will continue to monitor until the impact on all services is over.'

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Microsoft Outlook went down worldwide. Its services came to a halt. Due to this, the user had to face trouble. Microsoft Outlook accounts of thousands of users got locked. Users were constantly reacting to this problem on X late at night. Microsoft 365 manages services like Outlook, Excel and PowerPoint. He said, "We have found the cause. It is being fixed."

The problem has been occurring for the last few days

For the last few days, Microsoft Outlook users have been complaining of problems accessing their accounts. In 2023 and 2024, the tech giant experienced massive outages, which took hours to fix at that time.

What is MS Outlook?

MS Outlook is a personal information manager. It was introduced by Microsoft in 1997. It was later included as the MS Office suite. It is primarily an email client.