New Delhi, July 10 -- Microsoft Outlook, the widely-used email and calendar service, is gradually recovering after a major global disruption that left users unable to access their mailboxes for over 11 hours across multiple platforms including web, desktop, and mobile.

The outage began at around 10:20 PM UTC on 9 July (3:50 AM IST on 10 July), severely affecting personal and professional communication worldwide. According to real-time tracking platform DownDetector, more than 62 per cent of reported issues were related to login failures, with 33 per cent citing server connectivity problems and another five per cent unable to send emails.

Microsoft acknowledged the incident through its official Microsoft 365 Status account on X, stating,...