Microsoft products, including Outlook email services and CoPilot, were down for thousands of people on the afternoon of Thursday, Nov. 12.
Outage tracker Downdetector reflected a spike in reports about Microsoft 365 services beginning just after 12 p.m. ET, with 22,323 users reporting outages by 12:55 p.m. ET.
Outlook had just shy of 83,000 reported outages just before 1 p.m. ET, while 2,000 reported issues with Teams and 4,400 reported disturbances to CoPilot around the same time.
Microsoft posted about "issues when accessing or using Microsoft Teams functionality in North America" on itsofficial X account at 10:40 a.m. ET, but said in the same thread that they were resolved around noon.
A more recent post from just before 1 p.m. ET said, "We're
investigating reports of users experiencing issues accessing Exchange Online mailboxes through multiple connection methods in the Americas."
This article originally appeared on USA TODAY: Thousands of users reporting issues with Microsoft Outlook, 365
