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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.
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Most Reported Problems
The following are the most recent problems reported by Outlook.com users through our website.
- Sign in (48%)
- Errors (26%)
- Website Down (25%)
Live Outage Map
The most recent Outlook.com outage reports came from the following cities:
| City | Problem Type | Report Time |
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 Charlottetown
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Errors | 5 hours ago |
 Noves
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Sign in | 5 hours ago |
 Festus
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Website Down | 7 hours ago |
 Liverpool
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Sign in | 7 hours ago |
 Quito
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Sign in | 9 hours ago |
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Aberdare
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Sign in | 10 hours ago |
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Outlook.com Issues Reports
Latest outage, problems and issue reports in social media:
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Phil Lisovicz (@phills_life) reported@Outlook your "Prove you're a human" captcha is so horribly, horribly broken that i cannot even make an account. i've tried 3 browsers and my iphone. How could your signup flow be so bad in 2026 that people can't even create an account?
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Joey Bressette (@J0seph455) reported@Outlook can't login to my email. Forgot my password and can't login and they won't send me a verification code. What do I do?
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CryptoKong (@CryptoKong59483) reportedHow embarrassing for @satyanadella showing how @Windows legacy bloat and tech debt is putting mission critical, national-visibility use of #Windows is broken. The @Outlook team should be scrambling.
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Gerry L 🇨🇦 (@lee_gerry) reported@Outlook @policyislife I know, it's so f n'ing annoying where i have to change my password all the time. Soon I'll run out of words to use. Like get your head out of your, and fix this issue.
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Declan Lane (@lane_declan) reported@michaelhannaa @Outlook Terrible.
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Camm2992 (@colinmurray92) reported@MicrosoftHelps @Outlook I can’t login to my outlook account and I can not find the live chat. Can someone please call me
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Jason Starr, Consumer Ventures, Awakened Foods (@JasonStarr) reportedHad to finally upgrade from "Legacy" @Microsoft @Outlook on a Mac to "new" Outlook (because old Outlook kept crashing my computer due to what I must assume was a massive a memory leak) Just miserable. Stupid, basic stuff still broken or mission. Formatting of signatures is totally messed up. Can't turn on/off hidden paragraph markers when editing email. Can no longer click within an email to see the conversation or related emails (this is a huge loss). This product has been out since 2020. It has been the default email client since 2022. HOW CAN IT STILL BE THIS BAD!?! Or do they just hate Mac users that much?
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Wendy Watkins (@WendyWendywat) reported@Outlook having real problems contacting customer support - how do I urgently get hold of someone please? URGENT
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Matt Ayoub (@mattayoub1) reported@Outlook @Microsoft it’s been WEEKS and my Hotmail is STILL in another language! Can someone please contact me and actually follow through till the issue is resolved?
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JC Castañeda (@xJoeyxKnucklesx) reported@Anita52174838 @NikhilB27505303 @Outlook I got same problem VaultEdgeX helped me
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NEO_England (@NEO_England) reported@Outlook Dear Microsoft. I’m locked out of my personal email, my authentication on my phone is linked as recovery for my business email. I get a prompt to enter my mobile so I can get a text to be greeted with ‘it’s not working right now’. I have forgotten my password and have tried countless hours trying to get my personal email up and running… one course of action was encountering AI chat which was useless! I am at the end of my tether now as it’s been over a month of trying and as you can appreciate, it’s incredibly disruptive. I have some very important personal emails that I can’t now access! I can’t speak to a human so how can you remedy this?
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Hey Its Burt (@josephburt) reportedProbably not what @Microsoft /@Office want to hear... yeah can you remote in and fix the two @Outlook apps running. Sounds like you still can't make a stable OS ...
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Cindy Bisset (@bisset_cindy) reported@Outlook I think everyone who has a complaint about Microsoft (because I can not be the only one), and their lack of customer service and related productivity issues should get together and let’s Sue them. I have paid multiple times for this ****
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maybe: rockie/pops 🤠 (@gooddadgenes) reportedit seems you have bigger issues, @Microsoft i guess I’ll wait…😒 cc: @Outlook
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Rapp Ma (@Summer1812660) reportedDear @Outlook idk why all Of a sudden I’m having trouble logging into my email I’ve had for 20+ years but thank you! It was all spam anyways. I have no email and I’m not changing my password again.
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Sam Golding (@SamG0996) reported@Sad_Saad @Outlook Yep I am also having same problems and not getting text message. Have you got sorted yet? Any suggestions @Outlook
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Sidhant Ranjan Shrivastava (@sidhantranjan) reported@MicrosoftHelps @Microsoft @Outlook I can’t log in to my personal Hotmail account. I receive the verification code on my alternate email, but after entering it, I get “Please try again later” for several days. Please help fix this issue.
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Florian Bador (@florianbador) reported@Azure : Remove this insanity of #AuthenticatorApp! I created a new biz account for some emailing, put the debit card, then the login forces to setup that stupid app, but I don't own a smartphone (and won't borrow anyone's). I tried to call support but got disconnected, calling again leads nowhere. At this point I could not even cancel the membership because I cannot login... Madness! Just let the customer decides what they want as 2FA!!! They know better, you control-freaks. So what am I supposed to do at this point? Cannot login, cannot setup auth app, cannot even cancel because cannot login, cannot open a case online because cannot login, and no "Use another way" option to skip this silly Auth-App setup, and no Desktop App either since I run exclusively on Linux.... Why so complicated??? Keep It Simple Stupid. @Microsoft @Outlook
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Mister Kayne (@MisterKayne76) reportedOver 10 lockouts and endless appeals later, @Outlook is officially the most "secure" account I own—mostly because even I can't get into it. @Microsoft , please fix this verification loop. It’s exhausting.
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Douglas Pratt (@dppratt) reported@outlook Our company email still down. When will this be resolved?
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David Nsiyona (ↁαŁε) (@DNsiyona) reportedLose the phone with your authentication app and you're in for the ride trying to login to your account! Many codes sent today mbu try again tomorrow @Microsoft @Outlook
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Dean Ashton (@Dean_Tonberry) reported@Outlook @Microsoft Let me back into my email I have had over 20+yrs with no problems you suddenly want to verify, for no reason that govt control. I never got locked out, compromised or illegal activity. It has been fine until now. You are helping to cause the problems this way.
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Shaun (@shaun19791) reported@Outlook A Chinese bot (gov) has hacked my account, I’ve still got some access and can see they are scamming people. Reported to you guys and response is fill a form in and no response. Server side rules that I can’t fix despite PW change and forced logoff. Not good
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Manas Mahodaya (@manasmahoday) reported@Outlook i have a hotmail account and the old password is not accepting and when I am going through m2f 2 fact auth it is not working cannot change the password
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Charlie Stacey (They /Them) (@CharlieStaceyUK) reported@Outlook I’m a sole global admin fully locked out of my business account. The phone number allocated to my case has issues receiving calls. I desperately need this sorted so I can work. Is there anything more I can do, at the very least to change the phone number?
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Hameedkanz (@hameedkanz) reported@ibn_wittig @Outlook @Live Sql server Yes.
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Joe Fairbanks 🇮🇱 (@pasadena792) reported@stevesi First thing to do is get rid of the terrible @Outlook web wrapper and bring back Mail & Calendar.
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Le Hunch in Da Trunk: Part Deux (@PeonhuskLIVES) reportedHey @Outlook wtf is your issue w/ signing on ipads? The ONLY time y'all won't let me sign-in is when it's on an ipad. Also, STOP DEFAULTING TO SENDING VERIFICATION CODES TO AN ALTERNATE EMAIL, I KNOW MY PASSWORDS.
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Daniel Burapavong (@TD2timeMVP) reported from City of Atlanta, GeorgiaTried the new Outlook app on Windows 11 for a few weeks and reverted back to classic cause of weird email formatting issues. In replies, my emails were returned all stretched out and looked out of whack. @Microsoft @Outlook @Windows