Just experienced this myself. So, if anyone is wondering why they cannot access their Outlook accounts, there is an ongoing issue.
9pm
At present, no answer has come from Microsoft as to why their system is clearly experiencing problems, and as such, no solution can be offered.
9:40pm
My personal outlook has started working
9:50pm
Reports of Manchester servers down.
Microsoft investigating outage hitting Outlook services in Greater
11:20
Outage claimed to be over
02/03/25
11am
Still reports of outages globally
News
Global outage, however—Microsoft's website says all services are online.
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