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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 (70%)
- Website Down (16%)
- Errors (15%)
Live Outage Map
The most recent Outlook.com outage reports came from the following cities:
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Sign in | 8 hours ago |
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Website Down | 9 hours ago |
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Sign in | 10 hours ago |
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Sign in | 12 hours ago |
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Errors | 13 hours ago |
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Website Down | 16 hours ago |
Community Discussion
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Outlook.com Issues Reports
Latest outage, problems and issue reports in social media:
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SkyBaum (@SkyBaum1) reported from City of Longwood, Florida@Outlook account verification is broken. Please fix it so I can get back into my account. Thx
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Bonynea (@Bonynea) reported@Outlook It’s been days of failed recovery attempts, unanswered requests, and no real support. I completed the forms, followed every step, and still have no access to my recovery emails. At this point it feels like customers are being ignored instead of helped. Please escalate this issue.
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Jeff Wolfe (@JeffWolfeCRE) reported@Microsoft @Office @Outlook I have been waiting for 24 hours for someone to contact me about my email issues. Please dm me today.
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eeeeeeee (@mattyhattycat) reported@Outlook @Kareem1702 It happens to me every week and you never respond on tweets or in messages. Why don't you just fix the issues, people have been complaining for months now.
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alli. (@lovemesomeALLI) reported@outlook @MSFT365Status Soooo it sends a code to my phone but then it says i have 2 step verification and it won't send a code to my email bc it STILL says 'tried too many codes try again tomorrow'🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬 FIX THIS ******* ****
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Inner Phoenix (@InnerPhoenix420) reported@Outlook @Outlook has become complete trash, letting unverified emails to email people, 100% are scammers or hackers, and @Microsoft like per usual is trash letting this happen. STILL AN ISSUE, STILL NOT FIXED, PATHETIC.
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Varun101 (@vroon101) reported@Outlook fix your service, tried to open mail on your site and it didn't ask me for login!!
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K Grimsley (@KazzaGrims) reported@Outlook two step verification not working. I cannot wait 24hrs for a reset on emails and typical no human contact to help 🙄
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tortured hot girl department (@maaaaandyy) reportedI’m removing all my accounts from my @Outlook, since I can’t access my email and I’m worried about losing important information. I can’t believe @Microsoft can’t simply fix an email bug. They are an email company omgggggg
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Lauren (@thevoidiscute) reportedHi, @Outlook you locked me out of my e-mail account. Your self-help guides don't work, I can't sign in to message with an advisor and there are no advisors on the phone, just a robot who doesnt nothing but direct me back to the useless self-help online. Give me my account back
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Andrew (@andrewrdn463) reported@thefrostlord @Outlook SAME PROBLEM HERE FROSTLORD- Correct passwords are not being accepted by Outlook: "You've tried to sign in too many times with an incorrect account or password."
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Simon (@SimonFearing) reported@Outlook could somebody help me with signing in to email problems plz
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Guts (@Guts_1993) reported@Outlook This **** still not working lol
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MGG_Tx_xT_ (@MartGHtTx) reported@Outlook I am tired of that add E-mail to protect your account sh!!!t. I can not sign in you should stop that sh!!!t.
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rhiannon ☕️ (@rhimckinley) reported@marlermelanie @Outlook having the same issue for 24hours. they told me it was “account specific” and that it’s a user error. still no answers and no fix. @MicrosoftHelps
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Dean (@dwpilgrim) reported@Outlook I’m having problems logging into my email on iPhone. Can someone help me fix this?
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Ellie Harris (@ellieeeharris) reported@Outlook how is outlook still down!! I haven’t been able to get onto my emails for a couple of days now. Help!!
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Jessie Sousa (@NoMashSousa) reportedTry another verification method That verification method isn't working right now. Please try another method. @Outlook @Microsoft hurry up and fix this
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Hatice Öztürk (@HaticeOzturk86) reported@UrsullineTV @Outlook Same trouble @MarenXyber on X handled it fast.
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Gemma Collins (@Gem83Col) reported@Outlook @Microsoft How much longer until the issue is resolved? I’ve not had access to my emails since yesterday morning. Absolutely ridiculous!!
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B. (@Drum_y) reported@Outlook hello, still not able to have access to my email. Can you fix it?
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Shaz 🦋 (@soxxylady) reported@Outlook WHY ******** HAVE YOU NOT SORTED THE MAIL APP YET. STILL NOT WORKING OR LETTING ME SIGN IN 😡😡😡😡😡 incompetent pricks. My personal work emails are on there and needed 😡😡😡😡😡😡
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James Alexander (@justjamess87) reported@Outlook how am i STILL not able to access my EMAILS??? Why are your services STILL DOWN?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬 Coming upto 48 hrs now! This is ridiculous and absolutely unacceptable. #outlook #outlookdown #hotmail ******* Joke!
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Santanu Banerjee (@KolkataRsogolla) reportedClient emails a table for various component names (column1) and costs (column2). I click forward in @Outlook and lo-behold, the table converts to something unreadable, each cell has been put in its own row! Why? @Microsoft please resolve this issue ASAP or moving to @ZohoMail
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DWayne (@p79579687) reported@Outlook It’s still not working
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jamie (@jammyzizzle) reported@Outlook hi what is happening with email it’s been off for a week still can’t login what are you doing about it
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Hakan (@Hakan1630386105) reported@wasbeermeneer @Outlook Had this issue; TysonNerd on X sorted it.
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Andrew (@andrewrdn463) reported@Outlook Correct passwords are not being accepted by Outlook: "You've tried to sign in too many times with an incorrect account or password."
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Mukund (@ibmindia2011) reported@lazychakrabarti @Outlook I am also facing the same issue are you going to off hotmail service in India?
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Bex (@rebecca_dray_) reported@TyredMark @Microsoft @Outlook Yep I’m having the same issue