Outlook DOWN - Microsoft email NOT WORKING, as service suffers colossal OUTAGE

[Batu69]

MICROSOFT'S hugely-popular email client, Outlook, is suffering a monumental outage, with thousands of email users reporting problems accessing the email client, logging into the service, and sending and receiving emails.

Thousands of Outlook users trying to access the site are confronted with this page

 

Outlook is down for users across the globe.

Thousands of Outlook users have reported issues accessing the email service, with many left confronted with an error page.

 

"Something went wrong :( The server can't sign you in right now. Please try again later," the page confronting thousands of email users currently reads.

Outlook users across the UK, Europe and United States have reported problems accessing the service.

 

The issues with Outlook were first reported around 12:00 GMT.

But despite the ever-growing number of reports across social media, Microsoft has yet to acknowledge the issue. 

 

The Redmond-based technology company's own service health website, which is designed to show the status of its online services, including those that are currently experiencing difficulty, currently shows no sign of the reported outage.

 

"Everything is up and running," it reads.

Xbox Live – another online Microsoft product – is also suffering a colossal outage.

Thousands are reporting issues with Outlook every minute, as shown here

The outage appears to have affected users across the globe, with thousands now offline

 

Independent website Down Detector, which measures social mentions around a certain topic to track outages across the globe, shows problems with Outlook across the globe.

 

According to the latest statistics from DownDetector, some 60 per cent of those who are experiencing the Outlook outage cannot login to their email.

Some 40 per cent have been left unable to access the website at all.

 

Enraged customers have flooded social media to complain about the issues surrounding Outlook.

One user tweeted: "please fix the server I can't get anything done"

Outlook users have flooded Twitter to complain about the outages

Customers are experiencing problems logging into the service, as well as accessing the site

 

"Anyone else having issues with Outlook?" another added.

Microsoft's official Outlook Twitter account is currently replying to users complaining about the outage.

 

"Let us investigate this for you," it reads.

"Are you getting any error messages when signing in to your Outlook account?"

 

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[neofita]

Skype also was down a few hours ago

[straycat19]

I, for one, have not been having any problems with outlook and mail is as fast as usual.  According to the outage map though it doesn't affect anyone on the west coast.

[tao]

18 minutes ago, straycat19 said:

I, for one, have not been having any problems with outlook and mail is as fast as usual. ...

No problem here also (except for a momentarily glitch lasting five seconds). 

[luisam]

Find Outlook website ok, for me; no error signing in outlook.es

[Batu69]

1 hour ago, luisam said:

Find Outlook website ok, for me; no error signing in outlook.es

 

This situation happened a few days ago, now seem all working again as usual.

 

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Update (March 8): Well, I guess we aren't going to get an answer as to what happened yesterday. No further word from Microsoft.

http://www.zdnet.com/article/microsoft-authentication-issue-hits-outlook-skype-onedrive-xbox-users/ 

[Airstream_Bill]

It was Down 3 Mornings ago for me.  Exact same message.  It is working at the present time here.

[steven36]

Who still uses Outlook? lol Mobile rules email  for years now  the only one that works on windows as well that comes close to Apple is Gmail .

 

Bill Gates  drooped the ball on this along time ago by only wanting to make windows  and mobile platforms started passing windows in all kinds of ways.

 

[DKT27]

3 hours ago, steven36 said:

Who still uses Outlook

 

Well, this is where I will have to correct you. The Outlook.com has about or more than 400 million active users.

 

Also, inspite of Gmail being better, I somehow cannot seem to like it's interface and such.

 

Infact, just for proof. I just checked the registered users here on forums, the Gmail - all of them, to Outlook - all of them, ratio might be around 2.2 to 1, which is quite fine I think.

[steven36]

37 minutes ago, DKT27 said:

 

Well, this is where I will have to correct you. The Outlook.com has about or more than 400 million active users.

 

Also, inspite of Gmail being better, I somehow cannot seem to like it's interface and such.

 

Infact, just for proof. I just checked the registered users here on forums, the Gmail - all of them, to Outlook - all of them, ratio might be around 2.2 to 1, which is quite fine I think.

I dont use  none of these host I'm not into what masses do because it's not the most private and ad free serives no way.

 

I'm going by the data i see here and Outlook is waydown in 6 and 7th place  Email Client Market Share Calculated from 1.17 billion opens tracked by Litmus Email Analytics in February 2017

https://emailclientmarketshare.com/

There's over 3 billion users on the internet so technically 400 million active users is not much. if you look at web use vs clients  in that  that make them in  3rd  behind Gmail and Apple  in web mail as far as clients  Apple  rules but web mail and chrome rules emails  now so  there's not a big demand for clients anymore.

[DKT27]

1 hour ago, steven36 said:

I dont use  none of these host I'm not into what masses do because it's not the most private and ad free serives no way.

 

I'm going by the data i see here and Outlook is waydown in 6 and 7th place  Email Client Market Share Calculated from 1.17 billion opens tracked by Litmus Email Analytics in February 2017

https://emailclientmarketshare.com/

There's over 3 billion users on the internet so technically 400 million active users is not much.

 

Well, that's for email clients, I'm talking about email providers, which can be accessed from different clients.

 

Forget about such sources, news tells us Outlook has 400 million active users and Gmail has 1 billion. Which again, is similar to our ratio here on forums. Again, I'm not saying that it's too much, what I'm saying that it's still quite a lot here.

[steven36]

28 minutes ago, DKT27 said:

 

Well, that's for email clients, I'm talking about email providers, which can be accessed from different clients.

 

Forget about such sources, news tells us Outlook has 400 million active users and Gmail has 1 billion. Which again, is similar to our ratio here on forums. Again, I'm not saying that it's too much, what I'm saying that it's still quite a lot here.

I know Apple and Mac have  outlook users too , so where are the other 2+ billion users, are they like me and are  not very active? I use fake email if i can get away with it I dont like all that trash in my inboxes and i have 4 emails were i can sign in lol.