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When will the global Microsoft Outlook outage be fixed? What we know.

A global Microsoft outage has caused problems with Outlook, Teams, and Microsoft 365. When will it be fixed?

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Microsoft is experiencing a significant global outage today, resulting in Outlook, Teams, Copilot, Microsoft 365, and other popular services going down for an extended period of time.

While Microsoft deals with the outage, many users have been left wondering, "Just when will I be able to access my emails, messages, and calendars again?"

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Unfortunately, Microsoft has yet to share an estimated timeframe in which users can expect Microsoft 365 products to be up and running again. In an update posted to X at 4:00 p.m. ET, Microsoft struck an optimistic tone, saying that some affected servers were already back online. But by 5:09 p.m. ET, the company acknowledged its services were still down.

"We’re opening all available pathways to restore service, as our actions taken thus far have not provided the anticipated relief," the company wrote on X and a status page.

This isn't the first time Microsoft services have experienced outages. Most recently, Microsoft Outlook went down on Aug. 31 of this year.

That Aug. 31 Outlook outage began around noon, and according to our reporting at the time, service had been fully restored by 11 p.m. ET that night. If Microsoft is able to deploy fixes in a similar timeframe, then today's Microsoft Outlook outage should be fixed around 11:30 p.m. ET tonight.

However, the timeframe for this particular outage could be very different, depending on the issue involved and what Microsoft needs to do to get services up and running again.

Mashable reached out to Microsoft with questions about the outage, but the company had not responded at the time of publication.

This is a developing story...

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This story was first published by Mashable. Read the original report