Microsoft confirms major outage disrupting Outlook, Teams and Microsoft 365 for tens of thousands of users nationwide.

Microsoft 365 services, including Outlook, are experiencing heavy downtime today. Users have been reporting outages since the afternoon on social media and on Downdetector. "Users may be seeing degraded service functionality or be unable to access multiple Microsoft 365 services," an update on Microsoft's status page reads.

Outage trackers like Downdetector showed thousands of reports, with spikes in Outlook and broader Microsoft 365 complaints. This marks the second consecutive day of notable issues for Microsoft's cloud productivity suite in 2026. Microsoft Service Health Status also points out that Microsoft 365 is experiencing service degradation:

Microsoft 365 suffered a global outage affecting Teams, Outlook, and Office apps, but Microsoft confirms the issue was resolved.

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