Microsoft’s Outlook email service was down for Outlook.com as well as Outlook mobile apps and desktop programs.

Microsoft Outlook is down for the count in a major outage affecting millions of users worldwide for the past 11 hours.… The troubles, according to Microsoft's service status page, began at 2220 UTC on July 9 when it confirmed "users may be unable to access their mailbox using any connection methods.

Well, Gmail was paying attention, and the official account on X dropped a perfectly-timed post that has now gone viral. "It's a great day to send an email," the post read. As of Thursday afternoon, the post from Gmail has over 818,000 views.