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Outlook.com is a web-based suite of webmail, contacts, tasks, and calendaring services from Microsoft. One of the world's first webmail services, it was founded in 1996 as Hotmail.

Problems in the last 24 hours

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Outlook.com Outage Chart 03/01/2026 15:55

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Most Reported Problems

The following are the most recent problems reported by Outlook.com users through our website.

  1. Sign in (51%)

    Sign in (51%)

  2. Website Down (25%)

    Website Down (25%)

  3. Errors (24%)

    Errors (24%)

Live Outage Map

The most recent Outlook.com outage reports came from the following cities:

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City Problem Type Report Time
FranceThionville Sign in
IrelandDublin Sign in
United StatesMandeville Sign in
United StatesHanover Park Errors
United StatesPittsburg Sign in
United StatesMcKinney Errors
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Outlook.com Issues Reports

Latest outage, problems and issue reports in social media:

  • lionelroels Lionel Roels vk (@lionelroels) reported

    @lifebentastic @Outlook Same problem here...

  • Jakerskaldyr Jakerskaldyr (@Jakerskaldyr) reported

    @jeffsuffers @Outlook Run this in command prompt and it will fix. "C:\Program Files\Common Files\microsoft shared\ClickToRun\OfficeC2RClient.exe" /update user updatetoversion=16.0.13901.20462

  • hobbit_humano Tiscoito (@hobbit_humano) reported

    @amber_puga @Outlook Run CMD as administrator then run this "C:\Program Files\Common Files\microsoft shared\ClickToRun\OfficeC2RClient.exe" /update user updatetoversion=16.0.13901.20462 This solved the problem!

  • lanavishnu Lanavishnu Orchestra (@lanavishnu) reported

    Hey @microsoft @microsofthelps @Outlook - Outlook is broken tonight because of the lack of QA. Here's the fix for the current denial of service attack you're conducting against your clients:

  • hobbit_humano Tiscoito (@hobbit_humano) reported

    @EmNeezy12 @Outlook Run CMD as administrator then run this "C:\Program Files\Common Files\microsoft shared\ClickToRun\OfficeC2RClient.exe" /update user updatetoversion=16.0.13901.20462 This solved the problem!

  • TheRomit Romit Mehta (@TheRomit) reported

    @manan @Outlook Do you still have issues with Office? Guess not!

  • alfmorapime Alfredo Morales (@alfmorapime) reported

    @EmNeezy12 @Outlook same problem here!

  • hobbit_humano Tiscoito (@hobbit_humano) reported

    @jeffsuffers @Outlook Run CMD as administrator then run this "C:\Program Files\Common Files\microsoft shared\ClickToRun\OfficeC2RClient.exe" /update user updatetoversion=16.0.13901.20462 This solved the problem!

  • mefixcomputers Steve Hall (@mefixcomputers) reported

    @prestigematt @Outlook Not working for me...more details, please

  • rtonic12 Reid (@rtonic12) reported

    @RzRoberto @CamiloR97326705 @Outlook I just had same issue. They did an update that didn’t take. Do this.. 1. Window Button and R, 2. Copy and Paste “C:\ Program Files\Common Files\microsoft shared\ClickToRun\officec2rclient.exe” /update user updatetoversion=16.0.13901.20462 This will revert to previous version

  • GCBlue GCBlue (@GCBlue) reported

    @Outlook Any update on the worldwide Outlook issue where emails appear blank? We’re seeing it in a few clients, both with on premises Exchange and O365.

  • Captain_Slouch David (@Captain_Slouch) reported

    @Outlook When will this Application issue be resolved?

  • Dan_GT2 Dan_GT2 (@Dan_GT2) reported

    @Outlook My email message content is no longer showing. A friend has the same issue and a number of others having the same issue. What’s happening?

  • yankblan Yanick Blanchette (@yankblan) reported

    @Outlook same problem on french canadian outlook with the right pane not displaying text sent or received

  • Mixzawa Robert DeLeon (@Mixzawa) reported

    Reporting the same issue everyone seems to be having @Outlook that in the past hour if you restart the Outlook desktop app it will not display body of emails and test that goes invisible when not the cursor line focus. Only a few of my domain users are affected by this...

  • Daryl_Phipps Daryl Phipps (@Daryl_Phipps) reported

    @kgiokaris @Outlook Same problem in my organization, though it seems limited to Outlook 2016 installations for us. 2013, 2019, and O365 installations seem to be ok for the moment.

  • ChrisDHartman Christopher Hartman (@ChrisDHartman) reported

    @EmNeezy12 @Outlook Company of 48... having the same issue. Seems to be HTML related. Text will show in Plain Text...until one hits the enter key for a new line....then all goes to ****.

  • soleproprietory The MAXMIN Method (@soleproprietory) reported

    @EmNeezy12 @Outlook Same problem here too!

  • Gurpree11034849 Gurpreet Johal (@Gurpree11034849) reported

    @Outlook After new update : there is issue in email body . Can’t see the content in email body . Is there any solution ?

  • RzRoberto RobertoRZ (@RzRoberto) reported

    @CamiloR97326705 @Outlook @outlook I have the same issue.

  • mythulto mythulto (@mythulto) reported

    @EmNeezy12 @Outlook Same problem here. And I just got calls from two clients with the same issue.

  • TonyVCarter 🅃🄾🄽🅈 🄲🄰🅁🅃🄴🅁 (@TonyVCarter) reported

    @hobbit_humano @EmNeezy12 @Outlook Thank you Tiscoito. This fixed the problem. Did this command revert me back to a previous version?

  • dwayne0401 Dewayne (@dwayne0401) reported

    @Outlook What's the ETA on a fix for this destructive and apparent world wide problem? Did Putin get you guys too?

  • NYCurmudgeon2 Victor Roberts (@NYCurmudgeon2) reported

    @Outlook any update on a fix for the Outlook visibility issue?

  • mervynwhite Mervyn White (@mervynwhite) reported

    @cbryden @Outlook Update has hobbled outlook. Worldwide issue.

  • vanjaime Jaime ₿riceño (@vanjaime) reported

    @outlook is down globally. Do you know what is never down? #Bitcoin

  • TonyVCarter 🅃🄾🄽🅈 🄲🄰🅁🅃🄴🅁 (@TonyVCarter) reported

    Thanks Microsoft @outlook for releasing a new version of outlook today and making it impossible to read or create new emails and for making me waste 2 hours of my time before I found out it was not something I had done. Thanks to the guy in Brazil for giving the fix.

  • CoachPrice Jason Price (@CoachPrice) reported

    @Outlook having trouble on my desktop. My emails are coming through. But when I try to view the email the body is missing. Is there an easy fix?

  • JonInGriffin JonInGriffin (@JonInGriffin) reported

    Ugh. My @outlook is down & has killed my work progress/schedule. Good news that I got to leave early, but still. I know @Microsoft is aware. Hope it is back soon!

  • jeffsuffers JT (@jeffsuffers) reported

    @Outlook Ok so this is a known issue? I’m 150 in line for online chat right now....should I keep waiting or is there currently no solution?