Microsoft Down for Thousands of Users, Downdetector Reports
Key Points:
- Microsoft experienced a significant outage on Thursday, with thousands of users reporting issues across multiple services including Outlook, Microsoft 365, Microsoft Store, and Microsoft Teams.
- The main problem reported involved Microsoft Outlook users having trouble receiving messages, with reports escalating from around 2,000 to nearly 30,000 within a few hours.
- Microsoft acknowledged the issue via its Microsoft 365 Status account on X, stating that a portion of its service infrastructure in North America was not processing traffic as expected.
- The company is actively working to restore the affected infrastructure to a healthy state and achieve recovery for impacted users.
- The outage affected a broad range of services, with Microsoft 365 and Microsoft Store also seeing tens of thousands of reports during