Outlook is down for several users globally It impacts the web service as well as the Outlook mobile and desktop apps Microsoft is working on a fix to resolve the outage

Well, Gmail was paying attention, and the official account on X dropped a perfectly-timed post that has now gone viral. "It's a great day to send an email," the post read. As of Thursday afternoon, the post from Gmail has over 818,000 views.

The troubles, according to Microsoft's service status page, began at 2220 UTC on July 9 when it confirmed "users may be unable to access their mailbox using any connection methods." This included Outlook.com, Outlook Mobile, and the Outlook desktop client.