By Hunter Bassler
Publication Date: 2026-01-22 20:28:00
Thousands of users reported service issues with the Microsoft products on Thursday, a day after a brief outage happened with the same products.
REDMOND, Wash. — Thousands of people reported issues with various Microsoft products on Thursday, just a day after the services experienced a brief outage.
More than 15,000 users reported issues using Microsoft 365 products at around 3 p.m. Eastern, according to the outage-tracking site DownDetector. Another 12,000 people reported issues with Microsoft Outlook, and 500 reported issues with Microsoft Teams.
Microsoft Support teams were investigating the outage, the company said in a social media post. Investigators blamed the issue on the service infrastructure.
“We’ve identified a portion of service infrastructure in North America that is not processing traffic as…
