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Title: Microsoft Outlook Malfunctioned For Over 21 Hours Wednesday and
Thursday

Link: https://slashdot.org/story/25/07/12/1730242/m...

"Microsoft's Outlook email service malfunctioned for over 21 hours Wednesday
and Thursday," reports CNBC, "prompting some people to post on social media
about the inability to reach their virtual mailboxes." The issue began at
6:20 p.m. Eastern time on Wednesday, according to a dashboard the software
company maintains. It affected Outlook.com as well as Outlook mobile apps and
desktop programs. At 12:21 ET on Thursday, the Microsoft 365 Status account
posted that it was rolling out a fix. Although earlier on Thursday Microsoft
posted on X that "We identified an issue with the initial fix, and we've
corrected it..." More details from the Associated Press: Disruptions appeared
to peak just before noon ET on Thursday, when more than 2,700 users worldwide
reported issues with Outlook, formerly also Hotmail, to outage tracker
Downdetector. Some said they encountered problems like loading their inboxes
or signing in. By later in the afternoon, reports had fallen to just over a
couple hundred... Microsoft did not immediately provide more information
about what had caused the hourslong outage. A spokesperson for Microsoft had
no further comment when reached by The Associated Press on Thursday.

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