Microsoft's Outlook outage enters second day, affecting millions worldwide

Microsoft's Outlook email service remains down for a second day, affecting millions of users worldwide, including businesses, government agencies, hospitals, and schools, with no definitive cause identified yet. Microsoft has restored some services like Teams but reports "elevated load" across infrastructure as a likely factor, while denying any evidence of malicious activity. The company's vague status updates have drawn criticism from users on social media. The outage has sparked scrutiny of Microsoft's recent layoffs of 4,800 employees and buyout offers to 60,000 workers amid AI investments, though no link is confirmed. Microsoft's stock fell about 1.5% in premarket trading.