Microsoft Outlook Email Hit With Outage: 'Investigating Access And Service Issues,' Says Company

Weeks After Microsoft Corporation's MSFT 365 Services experienced a global outage, Outlook has stopped working again.

What Happened: According to the Microsoft website, Outlook experienced an outage late on Monday night and early Tuesday morning, preventing users from accessing or sending emails.

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• Before this, Microsoft faced a global outage in January. The Microsoft 365 Status Twitter account informed users that the company was “investigating access and service issue for Outlook”

• At the time of writing, Microsoft updated users that they see “slight improvement in some environments.”

• The tech giant is currently “exploring additional steps to expedite” the process and restore the service.

• The Satya Nadella-led company faced issues with users unable to access Microsoft 365 services on two separate occasions in January.

• Many Twitter users are linking these frequent outages with Microsoft’s plans to slash 5% of its workforce after previously denying any layoff plans.

• The company reportedly plans to cut about 10,000 employees by the end of this year's third quarter.

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