Outlook outage affects users worldwide, appears nearly resolved - UPI.com

July 10 (UPI) -- Outlook email users found themselves without access for several hours Wednesday and Thursday when the service went down.

The problems started at 6:20 p.m. EDT Wednesday, according to Microsoft. The outage affected Outlook.com, mobile apps and desktop programs.

On Thursday afternoon, Microsoft said on X: "Our configuration changes have effectively resolved impact in targeted infrastructure. We're now deploying the changes worldwide to resolve impact for all users."

People using social media posted pictures of the Outlook error page that says "something went wrong."

Outlook outage affects users worldwide, appears nearly resolved - UPI.com

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