Microsoft Outlook Malfunctioned For Over 21 Hours Wednesday and Thursday (apnews.com)
- Reference: 0178362948
- News link: https://slashdot.org/story/25/07/12/1730242/microsoft-outlook-malfunctioned-for-over-21-hours-wednesday-and-thursday
- Source link: https://apnews.com/article/microsoft-outlook-outage-email-down-8959e47f46b75ef47670b6aa3fc95d5d
> The issue began at 6:20 p.m. Eastern time on Wednesday, according to a dashboard the software company maintains. It affected Outlook.com as well as Outlook mobile apps and desktop programs. At 12:21 ET on Thursday, the Microsoft 365 Status account posted that it was rolling out a fix.
Although earlier on Thursday Microsoft [2]posted on X that "We identified an issue with the initial fix, and we've corrected it..."
[3]More details from the Associated Press :
> Disruptions appeared to peak just before noon ET on Thursday, when more than 2,700 users worldwide reported issues with Outlook, formerly [4]also Hotmail , to outage tracker [5]Downdetector . Some said they encountered problems like loading their inboxes or signing in. By later in the afternoon, reports had fallen to just over a couple hundred...
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> Microsoft did not immediately provide more information about what had caused the hourslong outage. A spokesperson for Microsoft had no further comment when reached by The Associated Press on Thursday.
[1] https://www.cnbc.com/2025/07/10/microsoft-outlook-outage-update.html
[2] https://x.com/MSFT365Status/status/1943299312949039565
[3] https://apnews.com/article/microsoft-outlook-outage-email-down-8959e47f46b75ef47670b6aa3fc95d5d
[4] https://apnews.com/article/technology-business-email-personal-finance-887c2bd087574745adcf7b7e95bfca9f
[5] https://downdetector.com/status/outlook/
Everyone was checking email wrong (Score:2)
There's nothing wrong with Outlook. People were checking their email wrong. [Unplugs coffee machine, plugs server back in]
Re: (Score:1)
It was the intern.
And nothing was lost (Score:2)
They should go for a new record next time.
Re: (Score:2)
The entire Microsoft Office suite malfuctions for me 24/7. Is it just me or are Microsoft's Android apps completely unusable dogshit? Office can't open emails properly from notifications and often opens the wrong email, Microsoft Teams has constant problems with state descynchronization bugs, the multi-tenant functionality is laughably buggy, UI is laggy.
Re: And nothing was lost (Score:2)
Well, when you have all your code generated by an AI code generator, reviewed by an AI code analyzer, and approved by an AI manager then what exactly do you expect?
One Word... (Score:2)
Brand.
Don't Embrace Single Point of Failure Systems (Score:4)
If people had a local office application, many could still work.
Forever 21 (Score:2)
Only 21 hours? Typically it's Malfunction 365.
sorry (Score:1)
oh, sorry, i tried to diasble that pesky forced cloud cache on my android app. my bad...