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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.

Outlook.com Outage Chart 03/04/2026 10:25

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Most Reported Problems

The following are the most recent problems reported by Outlook.com users through our website.

  1. Sign in (51%)

    Sign in (51%)

  2. Website Down (25%)

    Website Down (25%)

  3. Errors (24%)

    Errors (24%)

Live Outage Map

The most recent Outlook.com outage reports came from the following cities:

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City Problem Type Report Time
CanadaLévis Website Down
United StatesColumbia Website Down
United StatesBaltimore Errors
South AfricaJohannesburg Website Down
United KingdomLondon Sign in
FranceStrasbourg Website Down
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Outlook.com Issues Reports

Latest outage, problems and issue reports in social media:

  • kaclaros Katherine (@kaclaros) reported

    @Outlook please help me fix outlook on my Mac, it won’t let me send/receive emails & my internet research is not helping😭

  • iambdxoul B D X O U L 🇳🇵 (@iambdxoul) reported

    @MaximilianSoong @Outlook You are not only one. Outlook has weird spam email problems too.

  • SOHOBE SOHO Business Ent. (@SOHOBE) reported

    For goodness sake, @Microsoft! One of my clients found out that his email was redirected to an outlook[dot]com account. How do I contact someone at your company to have that account closed down? Your "support" goes nowhere. @Outlook

  • Stevero100 Stevero ❤️ (@Stevero100) reported

    @Microsoft365 @Outlook I can’t login my outlook account in my laptop, please help out

  • Psidjrurufjs Stormblessed davar (@Psidjrurufjs) reported

    @Roseia @Outlook I have the exactly same problem and i don't know qhat else to do

  • srivi20 Srivats Lakshman (@srivi20) reported

    @Outlook is your website down or something? Can't seem to load either on mobile or desktop... @MicrosoftHelps

  • delhitonoida Dinesh (@delhitonoida) reported

    @Outlook please help me with retrieving outlook password as I am not able to login to ms office. My account is blocked and now I need help urgently

  • NilanjanS नीलांजन | Nilanjan (@NilanjanS) reported

    Hi @MicrosoftHelps @MicrosoftIndia @Outlook facing problems with outlook server unable to download mails since 28th January either of mobile or notebook. Is there any issues with services in India?

  • StephanieBWard_ Stephanie B. Ward (@StephanieBWard_) reported

    For the love of god @Outlook please fix the Ignore button Why are you immediately back like hey!!! you should Double-check!!! I already double-checked and No, I would not like a comma there but this pushy blue underline won’t take No, for an answer

  • HMcKnightMD Heather McKnight,MD (she/her) (@HMcKnightMD) reported

    @Outlook not working makes life interesting. Did you get my email or have you not responded yet? Am I too busy to reply or you didn't get my message? #communicationistough

  • pseudokings the pseudokings (@pseudokings) reported

    .@Microsoft @Outlook Fire whoever thought dumbing the Outlook Android app down with the idiotic "SEE MORE" box that brings up the rest of a long email in a pop-up. Utter stupidity that adds nothing. Nothing. Do better.

  • DangerousMere Dangerous Meredith 💉💉 💉 (@DangerousMere) reported

    Any other @outlook users out there have a problem where an email automatically gets flicked to draft or archive while you're in the middle (I mean mid-sentence) of writing it?

  • amgarratt Andy Garratt (@amgarratt) reported

    @ajgbarnes @Outlook ‘Accept’: No, you must choose ‘accept with comments/without comments/don’t send a message’ from a drop down every time…. Looks like the Mac version is definitely the poor child…going to try and migrate to the Apple tools…

  • Charles049580 Charles Gunter (@Charles049580) reported

    @CrisVergara92 @Outlook In my honest opinion,there is a good chance of recovery,I guess you reach out to @901hacks he helped me recover my account which had similar issues with yours

  • srivi20 Srivats Lakshman (@srivi20) reported

    @MicrosoftHelps @Outlook is your server down? Unable to access my email via browser…

  • pavikanagu கனகு... (@pavikanagu) reported

    @Outlook i regret that I have used outlook email for my communications. I cant access my email account coz you don't trust my login. But u fail to provide verification method. You are not sending verification code at all.

  • ChrisKnowles16 Chris Knowles (@ChrisKnowles16) reported

    @Outlook Why have your services been down for 3 months???

  • Thomas_1990_ nick (@Thomas_1990_) reported

    @Outlook anybody else experience any issues with using the space key when trying to create, reply, or forward an email.

  • Samar_Pundir12 Samar (@Samar_Pundir12) reported

    @Outlook Dear sir/mam Iam unable to login into my outlook account tried all methods to get into the account and the reply given by the Microsoft Team was that we could not proceess the request due to insufficient data. Please do the needful

  • lew_sothebys Lew Geffen Sotheby's International RealtyCenturion (@lew_sothebys) reported

    @Outlook is outlook down?

  • DangerousMere Dangerous Meredith 💉💉 💉 (@DangerousMere) reported

    @emelaarghh @Outlook Do a Google search on it and you'll find ooddles of people have the same problem.

  • OfficialRendor TheOfficialRendor (@OfficialRendor) reported

    @Outlook Emails are down for me and a bunch of us sharing a server and outlook is acting like our accounts don't exist? About half of us are unaffected. Outlook desktop version Windows up to date. Pls help.

  • spangger gee spang (@spangger) reported

    @Microsoft365 @Teams @Outlook so much for the seamless, integrated cloud service.... After a password reset I must have had to sign in about 6 times on different devices to multiple individual apps.....#fail

  • drjphazelton Joshua Hazelton (@drjphazelton) reported

    @macky_neal @Zoom @Outlook "I am unavailable via phone, text, email, or EMR message until _____. For urgent issues please contact _____." No explanation needed. Enjoy vacation.

  • NilanjanS नीलांजन | Nilanjan (@NilanjanS) reported

    @Outlook Thanks Ron, within minutes of my tweet emails started getting downloaded, if it was a miracle, I wonder. If it was a technical glitch it's resolved. Thank you @Outlook

  • TheCCMaestro The Credit Card Maestro (@TheCCMaestro) reported

    @Outlook are you having technical issues? I haven’t been able to receive new emails since yesterday night.

  • liam_happe Liam Happe (@liam_happe) reported

    @Outlook Fix your junk mail blockers on outlook urgently please. The amount of junk mail and scam emails getting through lately again is nothing short of staggering. It's the worst of all email providers. I get 10 junk emails everyday without fail. Not good enough whatsoever Microsoft!

  • RthompAK13 Ryan Thompson (@RthompAK13) reported

    @Outlook this issue with items not showing up when searching inbox since update on 12/17/21 is really detrimental to productivity…

  • isaiah_turnbull Isaiah Turnbull (@isaiah_turnbull) reported

    @macky_neal @Zoom @Outlook I have a collaborator whose out of office autoreply politely says: I’m out. All emails from this time to this time will be deleted unread. For urgent issue contact X. For non urgent issues email me after this time. I’ve never had the gravitas to attempt it, but it’s the way…

  • CannabisKerry NorCalWeedGal (@CannabisKerry) reported

    Dang, too bad no one @GoDaddyHelp understands their own technology anymore. Literally 11 hours with them so far to simply sync @Outlook with gmail 😳 AND THEY NEVER SOLVED THE ERROR MESSAGE PROB! Truly unbelievable. #theworst #CustomerExperience #customerservice