Outlook outage affects users worldwide
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On Wednesday morning, millions of users across the globe found themselves unable to access their Microsoft Outlook accounts, triggering widespread disruption just as the workday was beginning.
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Outlook takes another sick day – Microsoft says it'll get better soon, promiseMicrosoft Outlook is down for the count in a major outage affecting millions of users worldwide for the past 11 hours.… The troubles, according to Microsoft's service status page, began at 2220 UTC on July 9 when it confirmed "users may be unable to access their mailbox using any connection methods.
Well, Gmail was paying attention, and the official account on X dropped a perfectly-timed post that has now gone viral. "It's a great day to send an email," the post read. As of Thursday afternoon, the post from Gmail has over 818,000 views.