Microsoft Outlook Is Down For Some Companies, Causing Major Problems

If you're struggling to send emails today, you're not alone.

Microsoft Outlook isn't working for some businesses nationwide, according to The Washington Post and ZDNet (amongst others).

Although Microsoft Outlook isn't as popular among consumers, it's still huge in the enterprise.

And the enterprise is big for Microsoft, too. The company derives over half of its revenue from business clients. Without functioning email, many of those businesses have come grinding to a halt.

Microsoft has reached out to angry users via Twitter:

Some Exchange customers are experiencing email delays, we are working to resolve, please see the SHD for service status

- Office 365 (@Office365) June 24, 2014

The problem is also being hashed out on this Office 365 message board.

"Microsoft has identified an issue in which a portion of capacity responsible for facilitating connectivity to the Exchange Online service has entered into a degraded state," said a Microsoft support rep. "Engineers are actively working on a solution to remediate impact."

Microsoft knows Exchange is broken and they're working on a fix. But that may not be enough to quell angry users who took to Twitter to vent:

Microsoft Outlook has been down all morning! grrrrrrr

- aquesst (@aquesst) June 24, 2014

Couldn't have been a worse day for #Microsoft #Outlook to go down.

- John Kreuzer (@KreuzersKorner) June 24, 2014

Outlook 365 emails have been down almost all day at my day job. This is just plain embarrassing, @Microsoft. http://t.co/FGk8d9U3Yt

- Matt Hoffman (@mattjhoffm) June 24, 2014

This outage comes as Microsoft Lync, an online communications tool, was down on Monday.