A Microsoft retailer in New York, US, on Friday, Oct. 25, 2024.
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Microsoft stated Saturday night that service was restored following an outage that left tens of 1000’s of customers unable to entry their Outlook electronic mail accounts and different applications.
“We’re investigating a difficulty by which customers could also be unable to entry Outlook options and providers,” Microsoft 365 Standing, the official Microsoft account for 365 service incidents, stated in a put up on X.
Providers resembling Microsoft Outlook, Microsoft Change, Microsoft Groups, Microsoft 365 and Microsoft Azure had been reported down as of about 3:30 p.m. ET. Greater than 37,000 people reported an Outlook outage and roughly 24,000 reported an outage within the tech firm’s 365 service, based on Downdetector, whereas roughly 150 customers reported their Groups accounts had been down.
The outages had been most extremely concentrated within the New York, Chicago and Los Angeles areas, per the Downdetector experiences.
Customers additionally flooded social media web site X complaining about their incapability to entry their Outlook emails, prompting issues of a world Microsoft outage.
Microsoft reported on its service well being replace web page that the corporate stated, “Every thing is up and operating.”
In a Microsoft 365 Standing replace posted on X, the corporate stated “it confirmed that service was restored.”
The corporate has not responded to CNBC for a request for remark.
