The incident left businesses across North America staring at error messages instead of their essential work tools.

Microsoft experienced a major outage that saw multiple services go down, including Outlook, Teams and 365. Here are the ...

Email accounts went down for thousands of Microsoft users on Thursday, with reports of outages spiking Thursday between 11 a.m. and noon.

Microsoft 365 services, including Outlook, Defender, Purview, and Teams, were down on Thursday ...

What Happened? Reports of service disruptions surged between 11 a.m. and noon on Downdetector, a platform where users can report issues related to internet services. Microsoft confirmed the outage in ...

[This story was updated at 10:10 a.m. ET to reflect the reduced number of people reporting Microsoft outages and includes Microsoft's response on X. It was updated at 10:31 a.m. to describe the repair ...

Microsoft 365 services and products operational now? Microsoft reports recovery in consumer-focused products, but Microsoft 365 services still face issues. Outlook and Teams show high reports, while ...

Running Microsoft Support and Recovery Assistant helps resolve Office 365, Outlook, OneDrive, & other Office-related problems. The tool can help you resolve issues with Windows activation, updates, ...

A widespread issue has emerged in classic Microsoft® Outlook following the Windows 11 patch update KB5074109 on 13 Jan, 2026. POP account users have reported that Outlook is unable to exit cleanly.