New Delhi, April 27 -- Outlook, the Microsoft email application, has suffered a global outage on Monday, with thousands of users complaining of sign-in issues that prevented customers from accessing their mailboxes. According to the internet outage monitoring service Downdetector,more than 1000 formal reports have been made with 68% of users stating that they were unable to log in.

In the UK alone, more than 800 users, along with around 400 others elsewhere, reported difficulties accessing their email services. The main issue has been the inability to log in, accounting for 64 per cent of all reported complaints. Some users have also reported problems receiving messages.

Responding to the outage, the company stated that affected users w...