Microsoft Outlook hit with hours-long outage

Microsoft’s Outlook email service malfunctioned for over 21 hours Wednesday and Thursday, 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.

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