At almost 0700 UTC, it perhaps optimistically added: "Our deployment of the fix is progressing quicker than anticipated and we expect impact to gradually mitigate as it progresses. We believe the issue will be resolved by our next update time."

Microsoft Outlook appeared to crash on Thursday, leaving lots of people scrambling as the work day began in the United States. Reports of issues spiked on Down Detector around the early East Coast hours.

The fix is also expected to reach Outlook 2016 on July 1 and Outlook 2019 on July 8. To see which version you're running, select the File menu in Outlook and click Office Account.

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Now, another issue has cropped up: Outlook is crashing when many different emails are opened at once. Microsoft is aware of both problems and currently working on permanent fixes for both.