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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

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Outlook.com Outage Chart 02/08/2026 00:40

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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 (56%)

    Sign in (56%)

  2. Website Down (24%)

    Website Down (24%)

  3. Errors (20%)

    Errors (20%)

Live Outage Map

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

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City Problem Type Report Time
United KingdomDerby Sign in
United KingdomTreharris Sign in
United StatesSanta Ana Sign in
United KingdomLondon Errors
United StatesNiagara Falls Sign in
United StatesElkton Errors
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Outlook.com Issues Reports

Latest outage, problems and issue reports in social media:

  • sandmaxprime ✨ Lionel Faleiro✨ (@sandmaxprime) reported

    Is anyone else having issues accessing Office @Outlook on Web?

  • lightmaterials2 Lightmaterials2 (@lightmaterials2) reported

    @wsbeck @Outlook I just deleted all cookies for 'outlook' on my chrome browser and that seems to have solved the problem all together now.

  • MarieEdwards429 MarieEdwards429 (@MarieEdwards429) reported

    @Outlook Why haven't I been able to load my messages for the last few hours? I haven't been able to see my new messages, and even my Inbox pinned ones are not fully showing. I can't even view Junk mail or send messages. No error messages just no function.

  • lyndacollier16 lynda collier (@lyndacollier16) reported

    @Outlook Outlook’s password reset process is IMPOSSIBLE! To be honest, the problems that one encounters with the reset password process do not reflect well on the brand. The Microsoft Office suite has great applications. It be good if you’d optimize the password reset function.

  • LCCK4ever Cathleen K. (@LCCK4ever) reported

    @Outlook @NederlandNatuur Can you check your messages as well??? You keep saying message you, but there's no response to the messages are being sent about the problem.

  • MarieEdwards429 MarieEdwards429 (@MarieEdwards429) reported

    @Outlook Why haven't I been able to load my messages for the last few hours. I haven't been able to see my new messages, and even my Inbox pinned ones are not fully showing. And, I can't even view Junk mail or send messages. No error messages just no function.

  • clevybencheton C. LÉVY-BENCHETON (@clevybencheton) reported

    @embedded_iot @Outlook Unfortunately I lost the emails on the server too. Fortunately they weren't so important.

  • diasporicmover neen (@diasporicmover) reported

    @NederlandNatuur @Outlook It's been happening with me for the last couple of days! I can sign in ok, but can't view some emails...and not even sure if all emails are getting through to me and vice versa.

  • Stargurl8 💜o hec, moongorl 8 is thicc 💜 (@Stargurl8) reported

    @Outlook hi!? whyare my emails not loading?? are you even trying to fix this??

  • TreizeEU Magnus Lindberg (@TreizeEU) reported

    @PJ_Hayden @NederlandNatuur @Outlook My issues seems randomly fixed now, on my end at least. :o

  • toothfamily1 Josie (@toothfamily1) reported

    @Outlook @SaHreports Also no message content ... what is the problem please?

  • Spin3600 Tom Bridgeforth (@Spin3600) reported

    @Outlook I have the problem where I get your email has been moved to a temporary mailbox error and when I send emails, my email address appears as a string of numbers. I followed the support article and it fixes the problem temporarily but it keeps happening.

  • FJeelani Faisal Jeelani (@FJeelani) reported

    @iamradioactive1 @Outlook Hi, sorry you have been running into this issue. Can you please open a support ticket via Help > Contact Support?

  • TreizeEU Magnus Lindberg (@TreizeEU) reported

    @PJ_Hayden @NederlandNatuur @Outlook I only seem to have this issue in Firefox, but it works fine in Edge and in Chrome.

  • diasporicmover neen (@diasporicmover) reported

    @Outlook My Outlook email isn't working properly for the past couple of days. When I try to view 'other' mail I get a error message that says "Your request can't be completed right now" and gives me the option to 'Retry' which doesn't actually do anything... Any answers?

  • NederlandNatuur Nederland Natuur (@NederlandNatuur) reported

    @Outlook Outlook mail is down, can't see my e-mails. More people have this problem. Are you aware of this?

  • fattselimi Fat (@fattselimi) reported

    @Outlook This is what im getting when im trying to send the security code to my Phone number, There's a temporary problem with the service. Please try again. If you continue to get this message, try again later.

  • RajanPoornima RajanPoornima (@RajanPoornima) reported

    @Outlook did you know your email portal is not working on edge ? it doesnt display any of my emails on @MicrosoftEdge but works perfectly well on Chrome 😟

  • wisdomdacosta Wisdom Da Costa (@wisdomdacosta) reported

    @Outlook Problems in Berkshire, England?

  • SaHreports David Ziggy Greene (S&H illustrated reports) (@SaHreports) reported

    @Mad_Muss @Outlook @MicrosoftHelps I'm having the same problem all today

  • MarkKennedyQW 🇨🇦 Mark (Bundy) Kennedy 🇨🇦 (@MarkKennedyQW) reported

    Hey @outlook I think your spam filters are broken again. My inbox has been getting blasted by a constant barrage of spam and phishing emails the last 2 days. Please get this fixed. Thanks.

  • wsbeck wendy beck (@wsbeck) reported

    @Outlook My email is down. Can you tell me if this is a system-wide failure and when it may be back up? Thanks. #HotmailDown #OutlookDown.

  • lightmaterials2 Lightmaterials2 (@lightmaterials2) reported

    @wsbeck @Outlook Try opening a new incognito / private browser window and log onto Hotmail there. Does that help? I think that Hotmail has a cookie incompatibility issue.

  • lackofcoffee Jennifer Bayliss (@lackofcoffee) reported

    @Xoreth @Outlook @Microsoft Same problem, using chrome

  • Giarc606 Craig (@Giarc606) reported

    @Outlook Cannot login on outlook for Android. All accounts have error with incorrect password and authenricator also not able to contact server error.

  • jenc44444 Jen C (@jenc44444) reported

    Been trying to figure out why my phone is do slow and is constantly telling me I'm low on space. Turns out the @Outlook app takes up 7GB?????

  • alonbrown Alon Brown (@alonbrown) reported

    @PlaidPhantom @Outlook I looked at this a bit and can't come up with a theory as to how this could happen. Any interesting display settings? If not, please select Contact Support from the Help menu, report the issue there, and let me know when that's done so that I can take a closer look.

  • tinsleyjim Jim Tinsley (@tinsleyjim) reported

    @Microsoft work from home does not work for your employees. All of your products that I use have gone to crap during work from home. They need direct oversight. @Outlook is particularly terrible these days.

  • FernandaAiub Fernanda @ emocionada demais sobre o Twice (@FernandaAiub) reported

    @Outlook when are you addressing the issues with the web e-mail client not working properly?

  • jamiehowarth0 Jamie WASH YOUR HANDS AND WEAR A MASK Howarth (@jamiehowarth0) reported

    Excellent start to the day. Fixed my mum's problems with clicking links in @Outlook not working, cause Outlook needs IE security settings to know if a link is safe or not. Crappy reason to need to keep IE installed, but hey ho