UPDATE 3-Microsoft 365 down for thousands of users, Downdetector shows

(Updates incident report numbers in paragraph two) Oct 9 (Reuters) – Microsoft's suite of productivity software was down for thousands of users on Thursday, according to outage tracking website Downdetector.com. There were nearly 17,000 incidents of people reporting issues with Microsoft 365 as of 2:39 p.m. ET, according to Downdetector, which tracks outages by collating status reports from a number of sources, including user-submitted errors on its platform. The actual number of affected users may vary. Microsoft 365 said it is investigating reports of issues accessing services on its status page on X. (Reporting by Juby Babu in Mexico City; Editing by Sahal Muhammed)

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