Published: 21:05 GMT, 1 March 2025 | Updated: 21:34 GMT, 1 March 2025
Microsoft services including Outlook have gone down leaving millions of users unable to access their emails.
Social media has been flooded with complaints about the issue with reports of the company suffering a global outage.
Several services appear to have been affected with users unable to access Microsoft 365, Microsoft Teams, Microsoft Exchange and Microsoft Store.
Tracking website Downdetector shows a huge spike in users reporting problems with Microsoft 365 from around 9pm UK Time (4pm EST) on Saturday.
One person wrote on social media: ‘So I’m guessing Microsoft Outlook is having issues, everyone around me has just been logged out of their emails.’
Another added on X: ‘I think Microsoft Outlook has gone down? Anyone else been signed out of Outlook or Hotmail?’
A third frantically tried to contact Outlook saying: ‘Hey. What’s going on with your software, no one can login to outlook and the error keeps saying too many attempts! What’s going on?’
Whilst a fourth quipped: ‘I thought I was getting my outlook hacked, turns out the entire Microsoft platform is getting hacked. Thank God it’s not personal.
Image shows the message that millions of users have been faced with when trying to access their emails
Social media has been flooded with complaints about the issue with reports of the company suffering a global outage (stock photo)
It comes after a huge Microsoft outage in July sparked chaos around the world – grounding flights and knocking hospitals, GP surgeries, train services, banks, stock exchanges and TV channels offline.
The technical fault – which was caused by an update pushed out to customers of cybersecurity firm CrowdStrike – saw Windows suddenly shut down across the world.
Shops in Australia shut down or went cashless after digital checkouts stopped working, while in the US emergency services lines went down in Alaska, Arizona, Indiana, Minnesota, New Hampshire and Ohio.
Windows is the most used operating system in the world, meaning the outage affected almost every part of the global economy.
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