Some Microsoft 365 services are still down, with users reporting they're unable to access Outlook and Teams. Microsoft 365 suffered a major outage on Thursday, leaving some users unable to send or receive emails. That's obviously not ideal in the middle of a workday.

An hours-long outage is preventing Microsoft's enterprise customers from accessing their inboxes, files, and video meetings.

Microsoft Outage Status Update: Problem Identified Amid 451 4.3.2 Temporary Server Issue, Estimated Time Here

Microsoft outage map: Several Microsoft services, including Teams, Outlook, and Defender, experienced massive downtime on Thursday. Downdetector, a platform that tracks online outages, showed at least 15,000 reports about Microsoft 365 at the time of writing this story.

Microsoft has updated the security baseline for organizations running Microsoft 365 apps like Excel and PowerPoint.

In addition to being free and open-source, LibreOffice offers other benefits, like more document privacy than Microsoft 365 or Google Docs, but there are also some drawbacks, such as no native cloud access to those documents. Here's what to know about LibreOffice if you're considering switching from Microsoft 365 or Google Docs, as I did.

Microsoft 365 services were hit on Thursday with many facing issues with Microsoft Outlook, Store, and more, even as the company rushed to fix the matter.