Tens of thousands of users reported issues with Microsoft products in Canada and the U.S. Thursday afternoon, according to outage tracker Downdetector. There were nearly 140,000 reports of problems using Microsoft Outlook as of 1:30 p.m. ET, the website reported. As of 3:15 p.m., there were still more than 63,000 reports of issues. Microsoft’s service incidents social media account said it was investigating. “We’ve determined a portion of infrastructure is experiencing elevated load across multiple regions, which is likely contributing to the connectivity errors,” it wrote online. Issues were also reported with Copilot and Microsoft 365, the subscription suite that includes various apps like Word, Excel, Teams, OneDrive and others. ‘Take your time’ Some Microsoft users took to social media to lament the outage, while others encouraged the company not to fix the issue too quickly. “Take your time. The peace and quiet is nice LOL,” wrote one user. “Please leave Outlook down till Friday 5 pm :),” wrote another. Other outages Downdetector.com also noted reported issues with Amazon Web Services (1,350) and Gmail (1,000), shortly after 2 p.m. This is a breaking news story. More details to come…
