Microsoft Outlook customers across the globe are currently facing a widespread blackout, with both web and app users reportedly affected, and no clarity as yet from the email provider

Is Outlook down again? As the outage stretches into the afternoon, the global community waits for a formal update from Microsoft regarding the Hotmail outage.

Outlook has over 400 million active users around the world. This issue seems to be affecting both personal and work Outlook accounts, as well as Hotmail accounts. Hotmail is also owned by Microsoft. Some users are seeing a message saying that their license is not valid, while others are seeing a message that says, "Something went wrong."

Today, Hotmail is getting a new feature aimed at "e-mail enthusiasts," which lets anyone create multiple e-mail accounts that can be read, replied to, and managed from their everyday e-mail inbox.

Hotmail was the land of burner accounts for people setting up fake dating profiles. As a pioneer in HTML email, Hotmail users were a natural target for emerging phishing and drive-by download attacks.

If you're having trouble logging into your Hotmail account today, you're definitely not the only one. Millions of users around the world have been facing issues with Microsoft’s email service since early Thursday morning,