Microsoft Outlook Malfunctioned For Over 21 Hours Wednesday and Thursday (apnews.com) 18
"Microsoft's Outlook email service malfunctioned for over 21 hours Wednesday and Thursday," reports CNBC, "prompting some people to post on social media about the inability to reach their virtual mailboxes."
The issue began at 6:20 p.m. Eastern time on Wednesday, according to a dashboard the software company maintains. It affected Outlook.com as well as Outlook mobile apps and desktop programs. At 12:21 ET on Thursday, the Microsoft 365 Status account posted that it was rolling out a fix.
Although earlier on Thursday Microsoft posted on X that "We identified an issue with the initial fix, and we've corrected it..."
More details from the Associated Press: Disruptions appeared to peak just before noon ET on Thursday, when more than 2,700 users worldwide reported issues with Outlook, formerly also Hotmail, to outage tracker Downdetector. Some said they encountered problems like loading their inboxes or signing in. By later in the afternoon, reports had fallen to just over a couple hundred...
Microsoft did not immediately provide more information about what had caused the hourslong outage. A spokesperson for Microsoft had no further comment when reached by The Associated Press on Thursday.
Although earlier on Thursday Microsoft posted on X that "We identified an issue with the initial fix, and we've corrected it..."
More details from the Associated Press: Disruptions appeared to peak just before noon ET on Thursday, when more than 2,700 users worldwide reported issues with Outlook, formerly also Hotmail, to outage tracker Downdetector. Some said they encountered problems like loading their inboxes or signing in. By later in the afternoon, reports had fallen to just over a couple hundred...
Microsoft did not immediately provide more information about what had caused the hourslong outage. A spokesperson for Microsoft had no further comment when reached by The Associated Press on Thursday.
sorry (Score:1)
Everyone was checking email wrong (Score:1)
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It was the intern.
And nothing was lost (Score:1)
They should go for a new record next time.
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Re: And nothing was lost (Score:2)
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The one app that I routinely have various issues with, whether on my phone or my computer, is Microsoft Teams.
Re: And nothing was lost (Score:2)
One Word... (Score:3)
Brand.
Don't Embrace Single Point of Failure Systems (Score:5, Insightful)
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If people used an email provider that actually knows how to run an email server, they could have continued to work too.
Forever 21 (Score:3)
Only 21 hours? Typically it's Malfunction 365.
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Having been an Outlook user off and on since 2010, I'm thoroughly convinced that it's a steaming pile/dumpster fire--emails not showing up, hiding actual email addresses, multiple copies of the same meeting on the calendar (I've had up to 5!), meetings that no one owns and cannot be killed, being invited to a meeting and being able to delete the meeting, defaulting to RTF format emails, not being able to easily tell who owns a meeting, reoccurring meetings management, notification management is screwy (not
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I've seen all the bugs you've mentioned and more. The bugs, the exact same bugs, seem to persist perpetually, or if they do get fixed it takes at least 6 months to a year. I'm guessing they are phasing out "Outlook (classic)" for "Outlook (new)" and have given up fixing bugs in the old app. Of course the new one will bring its own, brand-new ways of suck. I've heard it's just a wrapper for the web interface.
A quick fix for the calendar items is sometimes deleting them in the web interface, if the native app
"Pathetic level" reliability, obviously. (Score:4, Interesting)
And that after they got hacked and _every_ MS cloud email account was open to the attackers for several years and MS noticed nothing: https://www.cisa.gov/sites/def... [cisa.gov]
Using MS as email provider must not be considered gross negligence, nothing else.
To Do too (Score:1)
Still ... (Score:2)
Worse than Hotmail running sendmail on Unix. Never recovered from the move to iis.