Is Outlook down? Thousands of users report issues accessing their email

FILE - The Microsoft company logo is displayed at their offices in Sydney, Australia, on Feb. 3, 2021. (AP Photo/Rick Rycroft, File)

NEW YORK (AP) 鈥 Several thousand Microsoft Outlook users ran into issues with the email platform Wednesday night and Thursday morning, with some reporting problems like loading their inboxes or signing in.

Microsoft 365's status page first said that it was investigating an issue with Outlook on Wednesday night, and later shared it was deploying a fix. But affected systems aren't fully back online yet 鈥 with the company noting that it encountered a problem with its initial remedy.

鈥淲e identified an issue with the initial fix, and we鈥檝e corrected it," Microsoft 365 Status , the platform formerly known as Twitter, Thursday morning. "We鈥檙e continuing to deploy the fix, and we鈥檙e closely monitoring the deployment to ensure no further issues are encountered.鈥

Microsoft did not immediately provide more information about what had caused the outage. A spokesperson for Microsoft had no further comment when reached by The Associated Press on Thursday.

As of around 11:30 a.m. ET, more than 2,770 users worldwide had reported issues with Outlook, formerly , to outage tracker .

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