Users have experienced off-and-on issues with Outlook in recent weeks. The software company has previously experienced massive global outages, which took more than a few hours to resolve, in 2023 and 2024. On November 26, Outlook and Teams services were restored after more than 24 hours of technical delays.

Microsoft email access seemed to be restricted for users across the US Saturday afternoon for a period of about an hour.

Microsoft Outlook has gone down leaving millions of users unable to access their emails. Social media has been flooded with complaints about the issue with reports of a Microsoft suffering a global outage.

WASHINGTON — Federal employees are starting to receive another email requiring them to explain their recent accomplishments, a renewed attempt by President Donald Trump and billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk to demand answers from the government workforce.

US federal workers received a second weekend email demanding that they outline their accomplishments of the previous week — but this time with a message saying that it would be an ongoing occurrence.

Elon Musk sowed chaos across the government just days ago by asserting that failure to comply with a similar directive would result in their dismissals.