Global outage hits Microsoft Outlook email services

Users around the world are reporting outages in Microsoft's Outlook email service. The issues, which began today (Thursday), include difficulties logging into accounts and error messages when attempting to access the service. This was reported by the news outlets ynet and Folha de S.Paulo. As of now, no further details have been released regarding the cause of the outage or a timeline for its resolution. Further details have not yet been released.