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Microsoft Outlook and Microsoft 365 services suffer major outage

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Microsoft Outlook experienced a significant outage on Thursday, affecting over 130,000 users according to Downdetector. The disruption also impacted other Microsoft services, including Microsoft 365, which had nearly 50,000 reports. Microsoft's own service status page was also reportedly inaccessible during the outage. AI

IMPACT Widespread service outages can disrupt workflows for users relying on these tools for AI development and operations.

RANK_REASON The cluster describes a service outage for a widely-used product, which falls under the 'tool' category.

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Microsoft Outlook and Microsoft 365 services suffer major outage

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COVERAGE [1]

  1. Mastodon — fosstodon.org TIER_1 English(EN) · [email protected] ·

    # Microsoft # Outlook appeared to be suffering a major # outage Thursday, with more than 130,000 reports of issues according to Downdetector as of 1:15 p.m. ET.

    # Microsoft # Outlook appeared to be suffering a major # outage Thursday, with more than 130,000 reports of issues according to Downdetector as of 1:15 p.m. ET. Other Microsoft services also seemed to be down, including Microsoft 365, which saw nearly 50,000 reports on Downdetect…

    LINKS cnet.com/…/microsoft-outlook-outage-11-12… cnet.com/…/microsoft-obamas-tax-plan-may-…

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