New Delhi, Jan. 23 -- Microsoft experienced a possible widespread outage on Thursday, with tens of thousands of users reporting service disruptions across Outlook, Microsoft 365, Teams and the Microsoft Store, according to outage-tracking website Downdetector.

Reports of problems surged steadily through the morning. At the time of initial publication, more than 2,000 users flagged issues with Microsoft Outlook, alongside 1,500 reports involving Microsoft 365 and several hundred complaints related to Microsoft Teams.

The number of affected users rose sharply over the next hour, with Downdetector data showing escalating disruption across multiple Microsoft services.

Outlook appeared to be the worst affected, with most users reporting dif...