Microsoft 365 down for thousands of users, Downdetector shows

Microsoft’s suite of productivity software ⁠was down for thousands of users on Thursday, according to outage tracking ‌website Downdetector.com. There ‌were nearly 3,960 incidents of users ‌reporting issues with Microsoft 365 as of 6:03 p.m. ET, down from over 15,880 reports earlier, according to Downdetector.

Downdetector tracks outages ​by collating status reports from a ‌number ‍of sources, including user-submitted ‍errors on its platform. The actual ‌number of affected users may differ from what’s shown on Downdetector because these reports are user-submitted.