Is Outlook down? Thousands of Microsoft 365 users are reporting outage issues

NEW YORK (AP) – Thousands of Microsoft 365 customers worldwide reported problems with services like Outlook and Teams on Monday.

In social media posts and comments on platforms like outage tracker downdetector, some affected said they had trouble viewing their emails, loading calendars or opening other Microsoft 365 applications such as Powerpoint.

Microsoft acknowledged “an issue affecting users trying to access Exchange Online or Microsoft Teams calendar functionality” earlier in the day. In updates submitted on X, the social media platform formerly known as Twitter, the company’s status page said it identified a “recent change” it believed was behind the problem — and was working to revert it.

Microsoft shared that it was implementing a fix — as of shortly before noon ET, it said had reached about 98% of “affected environments.”

Still, the company’s status page later addedtargeted reboots were “progressing slower than expected for most affected users.”

As of Monday afternoon, Downdetector showed thousands of error messages from users Microsoft 365especially Outlook.