Users in North America were having difficulties accessing, sending, or searching emails on the platform, and Microsoft Corp. announced that it was looking into the matter.
According to Downdetector.com, which analyzes outages by compiling status updates from sources, including user-submitted faults on its platform, there were more than 2,000 occurrences of users reporting problems with Outlook. According to the site monitoring company, there were just 351 complaints made in total.
“It’s possible that users trying to access Outlook.com who are predominantly hosted in the North American region won’t be able to send, receive, or search email”. Additional features like Calendar, which are used by other services like Microsoft Teams, will also be impacted, Microsoft stated in a status page update.