Microsoft Outlook Users Experience Hourslong Outage Impacting Email Access

Disruptions appeared to peak just before noon ET on Thursday, when more than 2,700 users worldwide reported issues with Outlook, formerly also Hotmail, to outag
Microsoft Outlook Users Experience Hourslong Outage Impacting Email Access
The Microsoft company logo at their offices in Sydney on Feb. 3, 2021. Rick Rycroft/AP Photo
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NEW YORK—After Outlook users ran into issues accessing their email accounts late Wednesday and into Thursday, Microsoft says that affected systems are back online.

Microsoft 365 first said that it was investigating an issue with Outlook Wednesday night, and later shared it was deploying a fix. But there were some delays—with the company noting that it encountered a problem with its “initial fix,” for example.