As both Google and Microsoft act to deprecate basic authentication for accessing Gmail and Outlook accounts, here’s what you need to know.

Microsoft Outlook appears to be back up and running on Friday, July 11, after widespread outages were reported on Thursday.

Microsoft is making some security changes to its Outlook web email service. It’s part of a new security initiative inside Microsoft.

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.

Microsoft Outlook users were reporting issues logging into their accounts on Thursday morning, July 10. Here's what we know so far.