Microsoft’s Outlook email service suffered a massive outage Thursday, affecting users across North America and potentially other regions. We’re investigating reports of users experiencing issues accessing Exchange Online mailboxes through multiple connection methods in the Americas, the company’s Microsoft 365 Status account on X posted at 12:54 p.m. ET. Both individual Outlook users and those […]
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