Sept 12 (Reuters) - Microsoft's ( MSFT ) 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 ( MSFT ) 365, according to Downdetector, which

tracks outages by collating status reports from a number of

sources, including user-submitted errors on its platform.