Thousands of Microsoft 365 users experienced significant disruptions to services, including Outlook, on Saturday, prompting the company to investigate and subsequently resolve a widespread outage.

Microsoft 365 outage leaves thousands unable to access their emails on Outlook - Over 7,000 users have reported experiencing issues from around 9pm today, according to the website Downdetector

Thousands of users reported issues or outages with Outlook and other Microsoft services on Saturday afternoon.

Microsoft responded to users' complaints on social media in a series of posts on X. It said that the Microsoft Outlook outage was due to a problematic code change and services have been restored now.