Microsoft outage disrupts Outlook email for 130,000 users

A widespread outage hit Microsoft platforms including Outlook on Thursday, disrupting email access for nearly 130,000 users and affecting other services like Teams and Copilot. Microsoft said it was investigating disruptions, attributing the issue to elevated load on its infrastructure and servers failing automated health checks. The company was testing a fix and rolling out an alternative method to restore service. The outage peaked just after 1 p.m. ET, with reports falling since then, though many users still faced errors sending and receiving emails or loading inboxes.