Microsoft's suite of productive software was down for thousands of users on Thursday, according to outage tracking website Downdetector.com.

There were more than 18,000 incidents of people reporting issues with Microsoft 365, according to Downdetector, which tracks outages by collating status reports from a number of sources, including user-submitted errors on its platform.

(Reporting by Akash Sriram in Bengaluru; Editing by Shilpi Majumdar)