A Microsoft store in Recent York, US, on Friday, Oct. 25, 2024.
Jeenah Moon | Bloomberg | Getty Images
Microsoft said Saturday evening that service was restored following an outage that left tens of 1000’s of users unable to access their Outlook email accounts and other programs.
“We’re investigating a difficulty through which users could also be unable to access Outlook features and services,” Microsoft 365 Status, the official Microsoft account for 365 service incidents, said in a post on X.
Services akin to Microsoft Outlook, Microsoft Exchange, Microsoft Teams, Microsoft 365 and Microsoft Azure were reported down as of about 3:30 p.m. ET. Greater than 37,000 individuals reported an Outlook outage and roughly 24,000 reported an outage within the tech company’s 365 service, in line with Downdetector, while roughly 150 users reported their Teams accounts were down.
The outages were most highly concentrated within the Recent York, Chicago and Los Angeles areas, per the Downdetector reports.
Users also flooded social media site X complaining about their inability to access their Outlook emails, prompting concerns of a world Microsoft outage.
Microsoft reported on its service health update page that the corporate said, “All the pieces is up and running.”
In a Microsoft 365 Status update posted on X, the corporate said “it confirmed that service was restored.”
The corporate has not responded to CNBC for a request for comment.
