Outlook has been hit by a nationwide outage, leaving Americans unable to send or receive emails in the middle of a work day.
Users reported issues with the website and app, which is used by millions of office workers.
The glitches hit around 9:00 am ET, plaguing users from New York City, to Chicago and Los Angeles.
The Outlook outage comes as Microsoft has been down for users Monday morning, impacting Microsoft 365 and Microsoft Teams.
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Outlook has been hit by a nationwide outage, leaving Americans unable to send or receive emails in the middle of a work day
Downdetector, a site the monitors online outages, shows more than 8,000 users in the US were having problems by 12:40pm ET.
Approximately 69 percent of reported problems cite Outlook’s website, 20 percent for the app and 10 percent of users are unable to login.
More than 1.2 million Americans use Outlook.
Users flocked to X to share their frustrations about the outage, with one posting: ‘So Microsoft outlook decides to go down this week? Sounds like Microsoft wants us to take an early Thanksgiving break.’
Microsoft’s Support account replied at 1:00pm ET: ‘Our specialists are currently addressing an issue impacting users attempting to access Exchange Online or other Microsoft 365 services, and they’re working to get this difficulty sorted.’
