There are a few ways to react when Outlook goes down in the middle of the workday. Some people keep refreshing their inboxes or ask a coworker if theirs is loading. On Thursday, plenty of people used the downtime to post on social media, where an afternoon without email turned out to be pretty good material.
An ongoing Microsoft 365 outage left people struggling to open their work inboxes, and Microsoft said other services, including Teams and Microsoft 365 Copilot, could also be affected. Reports of Outlook problems began spiking around 12:30 p.m. ET, and by 1:12 p.m. ET, Downdetector had logged more than 130,000 reports, as Mashable previously reported, with the apt subtitle, "Because there's not enough happening in the tech world today..."
For some X users, the outage hit just as they were getting started with their days. "As soon as I sign in outlook is down. Aww man!" wrote one user. Another declared himself "off work for the afternoon." In a reply to Microsoft's outage alert, one X user said, "if outlook doesnt work in the next 15 minutes we should all be able to leave work early today."
For others, the outage landed around lunchtime on the East Coast, and Adweek had an idea for how to spend it. "outlook is down which means the three-martini lunch is back," the publication posted on X . In the replies, users were grateful to "whoever chewed the wires at the outlook offices, bless your heart fr," while some were very worried about the state of their inbox.
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