Is Microsoft 365 still down? What we know as thousands of users report outages
Posted on: Jan 23, 2026 05:27 IST | Posted by: Livemint
Microsoft's productivity fit—Microsoft 365—was down for thousands of users on the intervening night of Thursday and Friday, data from outage tracker Downdetector showed.
More than 15,000 reports of outages were logged as of 1.34 am IST on 23 January.
Is Microsoft 365 still down?
Microsoft had earlier acknowledged the issue, saying, that “multiple Microsoft 365 services, including Outlook, Microsoft Defender and Microsoft Purview” had been affected.
In an update later, the company said that it had “restored the affected infrastructure to a heathy state, further load balancing is required to mitigate impact.”
“We're rebalancing traffic across all affected infrastructure to ensure the environment enters into a balanced state. We’re proceeding as quickly as possible and this approach will help us identify any additional actions needed for recovery,” Microsoft 365 posted in its latest update at around 4 am IST on 23 January.
(This is a developing story. Check back for updates)
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