Widespread Microsoft outage takes down Outlook, Teams and more

A major Microsoft outage has left several of the company’s apps out of service.

On Downdetector, more than 140,000 North American users reported issues with Outlook alone, with many other users noting difficulties with other Microsoft services like Teams and Copilot.

In a threaed on X (Twitter), Microsoft’s official support page confirmed Microsoft 365 service may be disrupted “in any region” and said it’s “aggressively pursuing all pathways to reduce impact.” The company didn’t provide a timeline for when the outages may be resolved, but in a subsequent post in the thread, it noted that the “elevated load isn’t driven by an increase in traffic, but by a number of servers being unexpectedly unavailable; straining the remaining infrastructure.”

We’ll update this story once we get further updates from Microsoft. For now, though, just know that you’re far from alone in having any issues with with Microsoft services right now.