Thousands of people reported issues with Microsoft 365 services, including Outlook, on Thursday afternoon, according to Downdetector. Just before 12 p.m., over 2,000 people had reported issues with Microsoft 365.

Outlook has been the go-to mail app on Windows for several years now. After first debuting in 1997 with Office 97, Outlook is now part of Microsoft 365, the company’s productivity suite. You can send and receive emails with multiple accounts,

Microsoft says that its Outlook email service, the Teams teleconferencing app and the 365 subscription-based Office suite are all down. Downdetecor, a site that monitors online disruptions, shows that people began reporting the outages at around 11 a.

Users just need to 'refresh/restart' their sessions Microsoft's Outlook app is crashing for European users due to memory problems, Redmond has warned, and evidence suggests the problems are spreading to the US.

Microsoft Outlook and Microsoft 365 are currently at the end of an outage that prevented some users from accessing their email.

Microsoft services across the U.S. have experienced widespread outages, preventing users from accessing emails, collaborating with colleagues, and carrying out essential work tasks. We'll be bringing you the very latest updates,