Microsoft Outlook Goes Down Around The World - Here's What We Know

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If you're having problem logging successful to your email this morning, you're (probably) not fired. A monolithic outage is affecting Microsoft's Outlook service, leaving galore group incapable to entree their email accounts.

Reports of problems started soon earlier 10 p.m. ET Wednesday, but surged conscionable earlier 7 a.m. ET. As of 9 a.m., reports were still connected nan rise, indicating location was nary resolution, according to Downdetector.com, a tract that tracks outages. Downdetector is owned by ZDNET's genitor company, Ziff Davis. 

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Outlook has over 400 cardinal progressive users astir nan world. This rumor seems to beryllium affecting some individual and activity Outlook accounts, arsenic good arsenic Hotmail accounts. Hotmail is besides owned by Microsoft. Some users are seeing a connection saying that their licence is not valid, while others are seeing a connection that says, "Something went wrong."

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Microsoft has acknowledged nan problem. Just aft 9 a.m. E.T., nan Microsoft Health Portal showed that Outlook was experiencing immoderate benignant of issue. "Users whitethorn beryllium incapable to entree their mailbox utilizing immoderate relationship methods," a connection read, adding that nan problem affected Outlook.com, nan Outlook Mobile app, and nan Outlook desktop client.

"We've identified an rumor pinch nan fix," Microsoft explained, but didn't connection a timeline. "We're applying configuration changes, restarting affected components and further validations are underway to corroborate that authentication components are decently configured."

Microsoft hasn't identified nan origin of nan problem. The institution did opportunity it would rumor different update by 12:30 p.m. ET. It appears to beryllium unrelated, but Microsoft had issues a fewer weeks agone pinch Outlook crashing erstwhile users started a caller email aliases replied to aliases forwarded an existing email. A hole for that bug reached immoderate users little than 2 days ago. 

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