Microsoft Outlook hit with hours-long outage

Microsoft's Outlook email work malfunctioned for respective hours Wednesday and Thursday, prompting immoderate radical to station connected societal media astir the inability to scope their virtual mailboxes.

The contented began astatine 6:20 p.m. Eastern clip connected Wednesday, according to a dashboard the bundle institution maintains. It affected Outlook.com as good arsenic Outlook mobile apps and desktop programs.

At 12:21 ET the Microsoft 365 Status relationship posted that it was rolling retired a fix.

"Our configuration changes person efficaciously resolved interaction successful targeted infrastructure. We're present deploying the changes worldwide to resoluteness interaction for each users," Microsoft said successful an X post connected Thursday afternoon.

The company's status page said "most impacted users volition acquisition alleviation wrong the adjacent 2 hours," and that it was continuing to show the service.

On societal media, immoderate radical reported that Outlook was functioning decently aft hours of users posting astir problems.

Some posts included screenshots of Outlook that said "something went wrong." 

With hundreds of millions of progressive users, Outlook is important, though Apple and Google's email clients are much popular, according to information from analytics institution Litmus.