Anyone else on Hotmail/Outlook? Its been down for over 24 hours now .

[matticus]

Am I really the only person to notice it's Friday 13th?!?

 

[fossyant]

Oh no, first external email has arrived. Pants !

 

[Shadow]

Am I really the only person to notice it's Friday 13th?!?

It started yesterday around 18:00 UK time.

I do not use MS for email. Nor Teams. Nor CoPilot.

 

[nogoodnamesleft]

The "problem" is more widespread than email/Treams/Outlook. I was editing a spreadsheet in Excel this morning and Excel was reporting "Cannot sync now. Servers to busy. Will try again later" (or message to that effect). But as it's OneDrive it's a synced file so I have a local copy and it's not shared with others so didn't really impact me.

 

[Electric_Andy]

I don't have an email

 

[PeteXXX]

I wonder if Microsoft tried turning it off and back on again 🤦‍♂️

 

[potsy]

Lovely and quiet in work today, not a single email, ah well soon be home time, it can wait til Monday 😀

 

[ebikeerwidnes]

I wonder if Microsoft tried turning it off and back on again 🤦‍♂️

If you go into the main Microsoft support centre just at the moment and say that I suspect you will not exit as healthy as you entered
I suspect some people are somewhat stressed!!!

 

[presta]

It was report on Radio 4 to be the failure of just one computer. If that's correct, it's astonishing that there's so little redundancy in the system that that's all it takes to bring the whole world down.

 

[Dave7]

Mine has just come on, no problem.
Strange but no junk mail, very unusual.
Strike that, its down again

 

[Exlaser2]

Teams has become THE tool for dynamic working and so many of us depend on it.

That is the funniest thing I have seen on here in years and probably ‘ wins ‘ the whole interweb for 2026 . 😀

 

[spen666]

It started yesterday around 18:00 UK time.

I do not use MS for email. Nor Teams. Nor CoPilot.

That would be Friday 13th in Australia and Pacific area would it not?

 

[Drago]

Mrs D getting loads done because shes not spending half her day deleting unnecessary emails.

 

[ebikeerwidnes]

It was report on Radio 4 to be the failure of just one computer. If that's correct, it's astonishing that there's so little redundancy in the system that that's all it takes to bring the whole world down.

From what I have hear it is one backend system
but that system is a cloudy type thing that runs on bits of hardware all over the world

the problem at the moment is that they bring one bit back up and it could get flooded as all the computer all over the world see it and all jump in at once
But normally they would have less demands for work per second - and thousands of instances of the system around the world to service the demand

so they are bringing them up but throttling the connections so each separate bit doesn't get overloaded

or something like that

 

[BrumJim]

Oh no, first external email has arrived. Pants !

Likewise. Best day of the year so far, and now the joy is over.