Microsoft Outlook Outage Leaves Users Frustrated as Servers Go Dark

See more of our coverage in your search results.

Microsoft’s Outlook email system appeared to be down early Thursday afternoon, with more than 140,000 outage reports as of 1:30 pm on Thursday, according to a website tracker Downdetector.

The company — which has more than 400 million active users — said that a number of servers became unexpectedly unavailable which strained the remaining infrastructure. It’s not clear what impacted the servers, but they were working to get them back online.