Outlook.com

FIRST-HAND READS

What people reported, in their own words. Every line links to where it was said.

• “We saw a lot of mystery failures for emails going to Microsoft inboxes (M365 and Outlook.com)”

  NEGATIVE · reliability · Hacker News · 2026-05-13

• “I have a grandfathered outlook.com custom account that I still use for MS stuff on occasion, but I switched off windows for my personal use a few years ago now, when they put ads in the start menu search on insiders.”

  NEGATIVE · Hacker News · 2026-04-10

• “anyone who had a legacy skype/hotmail account basically got locked out once Skype/Hotmail/Outlook.com all merged”

  NEGATIVE · reliability · Hacker News · 2026-03-28

• “Originally this was a simple HTTP to my shared link on outlook.com but then they started requiring authentication (because that's exactly what you want on a SHARED link, you gufftarts)”

  NEGATIVE · features · Hacker News · 2026-03-13

• “Why are incoming emails to outlook.com so large? 15KB minimum for a text email with just a title.”

  NEGATIVE · performance · Hacker News · 2026-03-04

• “my own email under outlook.com is literally the only one of the MS systems I can't seem to deliver to”

  NEGATIVE · reliability · Hacker News · 2026-02-12

• “Outlook.com's support for multiple email addresses on the same account which they made a fully first class feature”

  POSITIVE · features · Hacker News · 2025-12-26

• “outlook.com keeps sending me dmarc reports with failed dkim... while every single other provider gives pass to all domains. at this point I don't even care anymore. why Microsoft is so crappy?”

  NEGATIVE · reliability · Hacker News · 2025-10-04

• “One of the entries without the Issuer correctly set is Outlook.com itself. WTF!”

  NEGATIVE · reliability · Hacker News · 2024-08-18

• “I couldn't log into the email portal for outlook.com: I got a screen of tiny-fonted text all clinging to the left edge of the display, unreadable, unusable”

  NEGATIVE · reliability · Hacker News · 2024-07-19