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Outlook.com is a web-based suite of webmail, contacts, tasks, and calendaring services from Microsoft. One of the world's first webmail services, it was founded in 1996 as Hotmail.
Problems in the last 24 hours
The graph below depicts the number of Outlook.com reports received over the last 24 hours by time of day. When the number of reports exceeds the baseline, represented by the red line, an outage is determined.
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Most Reported Problems
The following are the most recent problems reported by Outlook.com users through our website.
- Sign in (48%)
- Errors (26%)
- Website Down (25%)
Live Outage Map
The most recent Outlook.com outage reports came from the following cities:
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Errors | 41 minutes ago |
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Sign in | 8 hours ago |
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Sign in | 9 hours ago |
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Outlook.com Issues Reports
Latest outage, problems and issue reports in social media:
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Ma🇧🇷 Pē (@_mape88) reported@Outlook The site is down. We've decided we're a terrible company and we don't work nights. 🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮
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Florian Bador (@florianbador) reported@Azure : Remove this insanity of #AuthenticatorApp! I created a new biz account for some emailing, put the debit card, then the login forces to setup that stupid app, but I don't own a smartphone (and won't borrow anyone's). I tried to call support but got disconnected, calling again leads nowhere. At this point I could not even cancel the membership because I cannot login... Madness! Just let the customer decides what they want as 2FA!!! They know better, you control-freaks. So what am I supposed to do at this point? Cannot login, cannot setup auth app, cannot even cancel because cannot login, cannot open a case online because cannot login, and no "Use another way" option to skip this silly Auth-App setup, and no Desktop App either since I run exclusively on Linux.... Why so complicated??? Keep It Simple Stupid. @Microsoft @Outlook
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Brendan R. Appel (@AppelLaw) reported@Outlook - Just now received an email sent to me on January 22, 2026 at 5:37 p.m. It arrived 1/28/2026 at 10:08 a.m. You claimed to have "fixed" your issues on 1/22 - clearly that was a lie. You had ONE JOB....
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Mark (@miningmark48) reportedHey @Microsoft… please fix @Outlook’s bullet point. They’re terrible.
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Jose Luis (@hellovaras) reported@Microsoft @Outlook Why can't you get your ToDo lists to share without any problems. You are a multi-billion dollar corporation that can't fix $2 problems. #Microsoft
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em-j rabbitwolf (@emjrabbitwolf) reported@Microsoft @Outlook I’m currently suffering ffrom being unable to access your consumer products ie hotmail (now Outlook) email accounts via the web. No, I don’t use the apps for health reasons. I can’t sign in to any of my UK based accounts at all! Help great appreciated.
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Jason Starr, Consumer Ventures, Awakened Foods (@JasonStarr) reportedHad to finally upgrade from "Legacy" @Microsoft @Outlook on a Mac to "new" Outlook (because old Outlook kept crashing my computer due to what I must assume was a massive a memory leak) Just miserable. Stupid, basic stuff still broken or mission. Formatting of signatures is totally messed up. Can't turn on/off hidden paragraph markers when editing email. Can no longer click within an email to see the conversation or related emails (this is a huge loss). This product has been out since 2020. It has been the default email client since 2022. HOW CAN IT STILL BE THIS BAD!?! Or do they just hate Mac users that much?
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Trevor Harris (@THarris1519) reported@Outlook @MicrosoftHelps can someone help me get my email address back and unblocked. Really creating an unnecessary issue in my life.
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Daniel Burapavong (@TD2timeMVP) reported from City of Atlanta, GeorgiaTried the new Outlook app on Windows 11 for a few weeks and reverted back to classic cause of weird email formatting issues. In replies, my emails were returned all stretched out and looked out of whack. @Microsoft @Outlook @Windows
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Wittig Lyon (@ibn_wittig) reported@hameedkanz @Outlook @Live Are you having installation problem or data loading problem?
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Joel (@Joel94994231) reported@Outlook @marti81_16 If the fkn log in system. I can't log in half the time says to many times login in use different browser. Just let me use a fkn password. I don't want 50 different methods. Ffs. Wake ******** up @Outlook
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Ryan Ricardo Dunkley (@ryanricardo76) reported@MandatesHonor @Outlook @LittlePoohBear_ Having the same issue too
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Sriprakash Rao Talpady ಶ್ರೀಪ್ರಕಾಶ ರಾವ್ ತಲಪಾಡಿ (@TalpadySR) reported@Outlook If there is a prize for damaging a perfectly working app with a new version much worse than before, you stand in the first place as a contender. Many useful features are gone. New version is slow & unfriendly. I can't go back as it can't connect to my Google A/C !
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mel (@mel76151448) reported@Outlook how am I supposed to get back in my email account, when I can’t sign in. Tried all the links but no success. Run a business on this account. I need to speak to a human!!!
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Declan Lane (@lane_declan) reported@michaelhannaa @Outlook Terrible.
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🌼🇰🇼زعفرآنه🇰🇼🌼 (@zafraana86) reportedUnable to sign in to my Outlook account. Is there a current outage? Please advise when it will be resolved. @Outlook @Microsoft
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Shawn Farrell (@farrellshawnp) reported.@Microsoft .@Outlook hold notices from a public library shouldn't be the innocent targets of your rate limiting. Please fix this!
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nkk501 (@nkk8314) reported@Outlook could you please help me with my email address. I am unable to login and it is saying I am blocked due to not enough verification
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Joe Fairbanks 🇮🇱 (@pasadena792) reported@stevesi First thing to do is get rid of the terrible @Outlook web wrapper and bring back Mail & Calendar.
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Cheekyman81 (@1_hsm) reported@Outlook @MicrosoftHelps I’ve been locked out of my Hotmail account for over a month. I’ve submitted the recovery form multiple times with correct details, but it’s rejected immediately each time.I was advised to submit a reinstatement request, which I did, but not working.
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Brian Fontana (@CodeFoxtrot) reported@IAmTimCorey @Copilot @Outlook I uninstalled copilot and m365 last week, will try again in the future! I think the first biggest issue they need to fix, is why there are two copilot apps that appear to be similar, but are self-described to be different, and then you need to have two on your system. Doesn't make much sense!
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Ramim Rifat | Beehiiv Expert 🐝 (@ramim_rifat_) reported@aa1yea @beehiiv @Outlook it's a glitch! beehiiv is working on it
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mother lee. (@heylee824) reportedthe search bar is not working the way it should @Outlook 😔
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Joel (@Joel94994231) reported@mentalmasterpie @Outlook Problems everywhere. Microsoft Outlook is such trans
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Bonita Aplomb (@OKen_Ishii) reported@Outlook this is a terrible platform, no idea how yall have conned so many companies into using it
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Liam Donoghue (@LiamD21) reported@Outlook I am having trouble logging into my account. I changed my password on my desktop yesterday and trying to update on my phone and it won’t work. I then try and log into my desktop and it won’t let me as I have ‘tried to many times’.. this is ridiculous
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No One (Noone) (@noone79751) reported@ActAlexGarrick @Outlook Because it is down. Been down for hours. The #H1B and Indian Engineers are on it.
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𝙈𝙞𝙢 (@Mari0am) reported@Outlook your services are not working, Ican’t get back any of my emails and YOU don’t have contact support. What am I supposed to do now?
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Quantaforze (@QuantaforgeCorp) reported@Outlook Hi, I’m experiencing an issue with OTP detection in Outlook notifications. When I request a GitHub OTP, Outlook shows a “Copy OTP” option, but it only captures 6 digits, whereas GitHub OTPs sometimes contain 8 characters. This leads to incorrect copying and fail
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Oluwanishola (@iam_Pacho) reportedCan you fix this damm bug!!! Its frustrating waiting for emails all day.... @Outlook