After countless people were unable to read or send e -mail on Saturday afternoon, because an apparent malfunction affected Microsoft Outlook, the company said on Saturday evening that the service was being restored.
Microsoft said on social media site X that it had identified a potential cause of the problems after Down detector, an online service that follows technical malfunctions, began to report for Microsoft Outlook around 3.30 pm et
More than 32,000 reports of malfunctions or other issues were submitted at 4 p.m.
Problems influenced extra Microsoft programs, where reports become down detector about problems with Microsoft 365, including Outlook, Word, Excel and other programs (around 25,000 reports). The malfunction site also received smaller amounts of reports of problems in the Microsoft Store and Microsoft Azure, the cloud computing platform of the software giant.
“After our reversal of the problematic code change, we checked the service emutry and collaborated with previously affected users to confirm that the service has been restored,” said the Microsoft 365 status account on X just after 7 p.m. et.
Journalists in the US today started to receive e -mails about Outlook shortly after 4.30 pm et.
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With e -mail not available, users went to social media to complain and feel sorry. “If someone panics about Microsoft 365, especially Outlook Down, don’t worry. It’s not just you,” posted.
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This article originally appeared on USA Today: Is Outlook Down? Microsoft says that the service was recovered on Saturday after malfunction
