The topic Outlook is down — the latest on the ongoing Microsoft outage is currently the subject of lively discussion — readers and analysts are keeping a close eye on developments.
This is taking place in a dynamic environment: companies’ decisions and competitors’ reactions can quickly change the picture.
Microsoft’s email and work platform, Outlook, has been down for more than 10 hours. Reports on Downdetector started slowly rising around 5 am Eastern with a peak of around 1,500 reports.
Unlike most outages it’s not explosive with thousands of people reporting issues all at once. Instead, there has been a steady hill of reports that won’t go away throughout the day.
Microsoft’s official status page shows “Service degradation” for consumer products, which would explain why things aren’t working as expected. It has acknowledged that it’s working on the problem, but it hasn’t provided a timeframe for things to come back to normal.
At various points today, Microsoft blamed the issue on Copilot, traffic loads and an update that was rolled back. It’s not entirely clear if all of those issues contributed or if it just one of them was the main culprit.
