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Microsoft Outlook is still down

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A global Outlook outage caused by infrastructure overload disrupts email access for millions, highlighting the critical vulnerability of relying on centralized cloud services for daily communication.

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Since just before 1PM ET on Thursday, reports have come in from around the world that people can't access their Outlook email, either through the web or apps. Microsoft quickly acknowledged the issue from its Microsoft 365 Status account, saying that "We've determined a portion of infrastructure is experiencing elevated load across multiple regions, which is likely contributing to the connectivity errors." There were also some reports of problems with Teams, but not to the same extent, while Microsoft's official updates said customers may experience issues across its suite of 365 business services. Several hours later, Microsoft has gone t … Read the full story at The Verge.

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