Is Outlook down? Thousands report issues with Microsoft email app

The app fails to load or, if it does, refuses to send emails (Picture: Photothek)

Microsoft Outlook, one of the world’s most popular email software programs, is down for thousands of Brits.

The issue began just after 4pm before rising to more than 5,000 at 5.40pm, according to outage tracker Downdetector.

Users loading Outlook are being met with a ‘Failed to fetch’ error, when a browser sends a request to a server and fails to hear back.