Outlook goes down across the US as Microsoft users report issues with the email service

Outlook has been hit by a nationwide outage, leaving Americans unable to send or receive emails in the middle of a work day. Outlook has been hit by a nationwide outage, leaving Americans unable to send or receive emails in the middle of a work day Downdetector, a site the monitors online outages, shows more than 8,000 users in the US were having problems by 12:40pm ET. Users flocked to X to share their frustrations about the outage, with one posting: 'So Microsoft outlook decides to go down this week? Microsoft's Support account replied at 1:00pm ET: 'Our specialists are currently addressing an issue impacting users attempting to access Exchange Online or other Microsoft 365 services, and they’re working to get this difficulty sorted.' Users flocked to X to share their frustrations about the outage This latest outage comes just four months after Microsoft suffered an outage described as the 'most serious IT outage the world has ever seen.'