Microsoft investigating outage issues impacting access to its products globally

Microsoft says it's investigating an issue that is keeping customers worldwide from connecting to its Microsoft 365 services and its cloud platform Azure.

According to Downdetector, an online outage tracker, the number of reports related to Microsoft services surged to more than 200 just before 9 a.m. ET. Customers reported issues with Microsoft logins, the company's Outlook platform and its website.

"We have multiple engineering teams engaged to diagnose and resolve the issue as soon as possible," the company wrote in a status update on its website around 10:30 a.m. ET.