The disruption, which has been resolved at the time of writing, was mainly contained to the New York, Chicago, and Los Angeles areas.

Countless folks found themselves unable to read or send email on Saturday afternoon as an apparent outage affected Microsoft Outlook email. Microsoft said in an update later Saturday that it had identified a potential cause of the issues after Downdetector,

Thousands of users reported an outage on Outlook Saturday afternoon, but by 4:39 p.m., applications like Outlook email were restored and operational.

Tens of thousands of people were briefly unable to send or receive emails on Saturday afternoon after Microsoft Outlook faced a widespread service disruption.

Thousands of Microsoft 365 customers reported having issues with services like Outlook on Saturday. In a series of posts on the social platform X, the company said it was investigating the issue, which affected various Microsoft 365 services.

Microsoft Outlook, 365 and other services crashed Saturday, affecting tens of thousands in the United States and millions globally before services were restored in less than an hour.

Microsoft Office 365 investigated an outage Saturday that left tens of thousands of users unable to access Outlook, according to an outage tracker. "We're investigating an issue in which users may be unable to access Outlook features and services,