Thousands of Microsoft 365 users were reporting outages on Jan. 22. Here's the latest.

Microsoft services were down for thousands of users, according to tracking service Downdetector.

This comes just hours after reports that another emergency update has been issued by Microsoft to affect other problems besetting users, specifically Outlook becoming “ unusable .” And it comes a week after the first emergency update for January fixed failed shutdowns and remote logins. All told, a difficult few weeks for Microsoft.

The incident left businesses across North America staring at error messages instead of their essential work tools.

Microsoft stock is down nearly 14% from its all-time high.

Microsoft confirms major outage disrupting Outlook, Teams and Microsoft 365 for tens of thousands of users nationwide.

More than 15,000 Microsoft 365 users weren't able to use basic functions Jan. 22 after the company suffered problems.

Microsoft tells told Forbes that it receives around 20 such requests for BitLocker keys every year.