Microsoft services suffer outages affecting hundreds of thousands of users

Microsoft services including Outlook, Teams and Microsoft 365 experienced disruptions on Thursday, affecting thousands of users across the United States.

Outage-tracking website Downdetector.com recorded more than 130,000 reports of issues with Outlook at 1:27 p.m. ET. The platform tracks outages by collecting status reports from multiple sources. The actual number of affected users may differ from reported incidents.

Microsoft stated earlier on Thursday that it had resolved a Teams disruption affecting users in North America and that the impact had been fully addressed.

The company later indicated that the issue may also affect Microsoft 365 service connectivity for users in other regions.

Downdetector recorded more than 46,000 user reports of problems with Microsoft 365 and approximately 3,000 reports of users experiencing trouble accessing Teams.