Microsoft outage leaves thousands of users without access to email and apps . By Auzinea Bacon, CNN . 1 minute read . Published 5:37 PM EST, Sat March 1, 2025

Thousands of Microsoft 365 customers have reported issues with services like Outlook. The company said Saturday in a series of posts on the social platform X that it was investigating the issue, which affected various Microsoft 365 services.

Microsoft Office 365 investigated an outage Saturday that left tens of thousands of users unable to access Outlook, according to an outage tracker. "We're investigating an issue in which users may be unable to access Outlook features and services,

To encourage this transition, Microsoft will soon allow users to sign in to the free version of Teams with their Skype username and password. By using the same credentials, users will be able to access their existing chats and contacts if they want to pick up where they left off.

Microsoft is closing down Skype, the video-calling service it bought for $8.5 billion in 2011 and which had helped spark a transformation in how people communicate online.