Outlook.com Outage Map
The map below depicts the most recent cities worldwide where Outlook.com users have reported problems and outages. If you are having an issue with Outlook.com, make sure to submit a report below
The heatmap above shows where the most recent user-submitted and social media reports are geographically clustered. The density of these reports is depicted by the color scale as shown below.
Outlook.com users affected:
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.
Most Affected Locations
Outage reports and issues in the past 15 days originated from:
| Location | Reports |
|---|---|
| Paris, Île-de-France | 15 |
| Charlottetown, PE | 2 |
| Noves, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur | 1 |
| Festus, MO | 3 |
| Liverpool, England | 25 |
| Quito, Pichincha | 15 |
| Aberdare, Wales | 1 |
| Naples, FL | 3 |
| Weare, NH | 1 |
| Phoenix, AZ | 5 |
| Bolingbrook, IL | 1 |
| Bedford, MA | 1 |
| El Copey, Cesar | 1 |
| Cincinnati, OH | 1 |
| Atlanta, GA | 5 |
| Township of Abington, PA | 1 |
| Apopka, FL | 1 |
| Chicago, IL | 6 |
| London, England | 14 |
| Township of Middle Creek, NC | 1 |
| Warsaw, Mazovia | 1 |
| Santo Domingo, Nacional | 1 |
| Reynosa, TAM | 2 |
| Berlin, MD | 1 |
| Cumming, GA | 1 |
| Brecon, Wales | 1 |
| Craigmawr Beach, ON | 1 |
| Guayaquil, Guayas | 3 |
| New Port Richey, FL | 1 |
| Wandsworth, England | 3 |
Community Discussion
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Outlook.com Issues Reports
Latest outage, problems and issue reports in social media:
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frozentimephoto (@frozentimephoto) reportedHey @Outlook can you fix your App so it works like it used to…..
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Nick ✨ (@njamess10) reportedGod, @Outlook just keeps getting worse by the day..... what's going on @Microsoft?!?! It never fails to go down. It's NEVER been this bad.
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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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Ron (@RonPipes) reported@Outlook Fix it please . 💔#EX1255397
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Jan-Henrik Damaschke 🦋 (@JanDamaschke) reported@gdlinux @Outlook I'm always for open source, but running your own email server was traditionally a hurdle. Any suggestions?
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Andrew Hopkins (@F19ADH) reportedI see @Microsoft @Outlook must have had another issue/breakdown in spam filters as their service becomes completely unusable for me AGAIN! Multiple copies of emails getting through. As you scan every email how can you not detect spam contents that match deluges of reports to you?
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Brendan R. Appel (@AppelLaw) reported@Outlook - Just now received an email sent to me on January 22, 2026 at 5:37 p.m. It arrived 1/28/2026 at 10:08 a.m. You claimed to have "fixed" your issues on 1/22 - clearly that was a lie. You had ONE JOB....
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Cheekyman81 (@1_hsm) reported@Outlook @MicrosoftHelps I’ve been locked out of my Hotmail account for over a month. I’ve submitted the recovery form multiple times with correct details, but it’s rejected immediately each time.I was advised to submit a reinstatement request, which I did, but not working.
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JC Castañeda (@xJoeyxKnucklesx) reported@sh69147 @Outlook I got same problem VaultEdgeX helped me
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Lee Charters (@cheeckycharters) reported@Outlook Can't message you. So I'll have to post this. My phone of 8yrs just died so I got a new one. Tried to sign in multiple times but no joy with password, couldn't use authenticator as no password. Been locked out of my email account that I've had for 25yrs. Help please.
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Monica Rangel (@MonicaLRangel) reported@Outlook Have been having issues with outlook all day today is there something going on?
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CA Shrenik Gandhi (@shrenikmgandhi) reported@Outlook @MicrosoftIndia I am struggling to get access to my official mail id since past more than 3 months due to technical issue where i am not getting authentication code. Raised issue through my vendor but they are also not getting any response.
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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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J.T. (@Joseph3T) reported@Outlook customer service is absolutely terrible…
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Joel (@Joel94994231) reported@Outlook @marti81_16 If the fkn log in system. I can't log in half the time says to many times login in use different browser. Just let me use a fkn password. I don't want 50 different methods. Ffs. Wake ******** up @Outlook