Microsoft outage hits Outlook users in Canada and U.S

Tens of thousands of users in Canada and the U.S. reported issues with Microsoft products, including Outlook, on Thursday, according to outage tracker Downdetector, with nearly 140,000 problem reports logged by 1:30 p.m. ET. Microsoft's service incidents account said it was investigating, attributing the connectivity errors to elevated load on infrastructure across multiple regions. Issues were also reported with Copilot and Microsoft 365, which includes Word, Excel, Teams, and OneDrive. Some users took to social media to joke about the outage, with one writing "Take your time. The peace and quiet is nice LOL," and another asking Microsoft to leave Outlook down until Friday at 5 p.m.