Oct 9 (Reuters) - Microsoft's ( MSFT ) suite of

productivity softwares was down for thousands of users on

Thursday, according to outage tracking website Downdetector.com.

There were more than 11,000 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.