Tens of thousands of Microsoft Outlook users reported issues with the e-mail service on Saturday afternoon. Microsoft 365, which manages services such as Outlook, Excel and PowerPoint, posted an update to X at 5:01 p.m. ET that it had “identified a potential cause of impact and have reverted the suspected code to alleviate impact.”
Although reports of an outage were primarily for Outlook, Microsoft said that “we’ve confirmed this issue is impacting various Microsoft 365 services” and is monitoring systems for recovery.
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Source: CNN News
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