Microsoft Outlook down: Hotmail outage hits millions of users

Microsoft Outlook was down for users around the world people who could not access their Outlook accounts. The Microsoft outage began around 6.30am when users began reporting that they could not log into their accounts.

In response to a queries about the issues from users on X earlier, Microsoft Outlook explained that they "identified an issue with the initial fix, and we've corrected it".

"We're continuing to deploy the fix, and we're closely monitoring the deployment to ensure no further issues are encountered."

In its latest update, Microsoft said: "The expedited configuration change has reached about 65 percent of affected infrastructure.

"We're continuing to see a sharp increase in service availability worldwide as the deployment continues. We're closely monitoring progress and anticipate full saturation, by Thursday, July 10, at 7:00 PM UTC."

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