Outlook.com status: access issues and outage reports
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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 (50%)
- Errors (25%)
- Website Down (25%)
Live Outage Map
The most recent Outlook.com outage reports came from the following cities:
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Sign in | 12 minutes ago |
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Website Down | 32 minutes ago |
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Sign in | 2 hours ago |
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Sign in | 3 hours ago |
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Sign in | 5 hours ago |
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Website Down | 6 hours ago |
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Outlook.com Issues Reports
Latest outage, problems and issue reports in social media:
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Colz (@simplymecj) reported@Outlook why the bomboclatt can’t I login to my account tf wrong with y’all man kmt
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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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Paul Richardson (@TechboyUK) reportedThat sinking feeling you get when the ~15 emails you had open in Outlook disappear after a system issue😭 @Outlook team, PLEASE make it more robust!
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Lee Charters (@cheeckycharters) reported@Outlook Can't message you. So I'll have to post this. My phone of 8yrs just died so I got a new one. Tried to sign in multiple times but no joy with password, couldn't use authenticator as no password. Been locked out of my email account that I've had for 25yrs. Help please.
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DrEvil (@DrMaryHolden) reported@CuriosityonX @Outlook do you ever read the room? Everyone has problems with your shite software
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Ture Anderson (@tanfrancisco) reported@Outlook I was able to fix the problem using another computer and a different network.
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H_O_ward (@xbonz08) reported@Outlook Dear Microsoft. Your Outlook email program is performing beyond all expectations. I'm down to 50 spam emails a day. Thanks for the bang-up you do on eliminating spam.
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frostlord (@thefrostlord) reported@andrewrdn463 @Outlook i have the same issue also a lot of people have the same issue fix @Outlook
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Mark (@miningmark48) reportedHey @Microsoft… please fix @Outlook’s bullet point. They’re terrible.
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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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Nicole (@Nicole18068) reported@Outlook IM NOT RECEIVING EMAILS!!! ITS NOT WORKING!!
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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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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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Matt Ayoub (@mattayoub1) reported@Outlook @Microsoft it’s been WEEKS and my Hotmail is STILL in another language! Can someone please contact me and actually follow through till the issue is resolved?
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johnr (@johnr1593426) reported@Outlook I can't login in my msn email ???
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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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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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Mister Kayne (@MisterKayne76) reportedOver 10 lockouts and endless appeals later, @Outlook is officially the most "secure" account I own—mostly because even I can't get into it. @Microsoft , please fix this verification loop. It’s exhausting.
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Citizen of Realville (@JeffWhalen989) reported@Outlook @Microsoft Why does Microsoft make it increasingly difficult to sign in to check Outlook?? If you’re trying to make it “better”, you’re failing hard. I wish you could take your email address with you to a different provider like your phone number.
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Michael Robbeloth (@mrobbeloth) reported@Outlook Email Templates in Outlook on the Web (PWA) seem to be broken. Changes do not get reflected when creating new emails using the template
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Louis Arthur-Brown (@LouisArthu66843) reported@Outlook @Microsoft looks like the Outlook mobile app is experiencing widespread problems - stuck loading, all troubleshooting failing.
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Leng (@lengafc) reported@Outlook I am having a lot of issues singing in, please respond to my direct message
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Stewart 🏴 🇨🇦 (@Stewmeak) reported@Outlook Yet another glitch today. Icon says I have mail but nothing unread in there
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Blue Diamond (@BlueDiamond305) reported@Outlook dear ********, your new version is ******* terrible 😣 new doesn’t always mean better *******. Classic was perfectly fine the way it was!
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Nick ✨ (@njamess10) reportedGod, @Outlook just keeps getting worse by the day..... what's going on @Microsoft?!?! It never fails to go down. It's NEVER been this bad.
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Erin 🏳️⚧️ (@EliteErin21) reported@ShishirShelke1 @Microsoft @Outlook fix your product please
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Fred (@ch1vat0n) reported@claudeai Maybe Claude can help the @NASAArtemis crew to fix their @Outlook not working? Maybe trying classy elm will do?
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Le Hunch in Da Trunk: Part Deux (@PeonhuskLIVES) reportedHey @Outlook wtf is your issue w/ signing on ipads? The ONLY time y'all won't let me sign-in is when it's on an ipad. Also, STOP DEFAULTING TO SENDING VERIFICATION CODES TO AN ALTERNATE EMAIL, I KNOW MY PASSWORDS.
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frozentimephoto (@frozentimephoto) reportedHey @Outlook can you fix your App so it works like it used to…..
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sheenbean (@loisetwt) reported@Outlook I currently have two Outlook accounts for two different jobs. When I try to log into one of the accounts, the verification code notification keeps being sent to the other work account instead. please help me resolve this issue so I can access the correct account?