There is a reason you’re not hearing the new mail notification from Outlook: Microsoft has confirmed its email client is down.
Just before noon, Microsoft 365 announced on X (formerly social media) that Outlook was experiencing issues and that it received reports from users that they were unable to access their Exchange Online Mailboxes “through multiple connection methods in the Americas.”
Microsoft 365 has revealed that it has determined what the cause of the outage was, writing on X, “We’ve determined a portion of infrastructure is experiencing elevated load across multiple regions, which is likely contributing to the connectivity errors. We’re providing more information under EX1550543 and MO1550821 in the Microsoft 365 admin center, as well as https://status.cloud.microsoft.”
Well, there you have it.
Social media (specifically Outlook users) are happy that the email client isn’t working and are taking this as a moment to log out and close their laptops for the day.
“Take your time. The peace and quiet is nice LOL,” one person wrote in response to to Microsoft Outlook’s service outage.
Another social media user wrote, “If outlook doesn’t come back online within 30 minutes can you legally go home from work.”
We mean, no lies detected here.
As of this writing, Outlook is still down, and we are patiently waiting for it to start working again, because we are waiting for some timely emails.
Until that happens, you can see more reactions below.
