Microsoft's outage disrupts Outlook, Teams and Copilot, with 1.3 lakh users reporting email access problems as the company investigates connectivity errors. Chicago A widespread outage hit Microsoft platforms, including Outlook, on Thursday, with many users encountering trouble using their email accounts and other errors across the tech giant’s suite of apps. Nearly 1,30,000 users on outage tracker Downdetector reported problems accessing Outlook just after 1 pm.