Funny, I haven’t noticed any outage on my Linux systems…
Cyber terrorists are responsible. They are holding the world to ransom. They have threatened that if their demands are not met, they will restore Teams to full functionality.
Teams had functionality?
Even cyber terrorists have standards
You’re absolutely right. I shouldn’t have deleted the Microsoft production environment, and that’s on me.
~ MS 365 Copilot
It’s actually 363 now, it was down yesterday and today
Nothing of value was lost
Anyone else remember a microsoft company in recent memory pushing a failed update and being unable to narrow down why it failed?
Why is our product down?
We don’t know it was the update.
Well what do the deveopers have to say about it?
They say they didn’t write the code and from what they could tell from the reviews there was no granular thing that looked bad.
Well Make the AI fix it
We tried that, it insists it’s working and that the failure must be in other systems
Well, tell the developers to debug it!
They’re working on it, but it’s someone elses code so they need a while to understand all the changes as a whole
Neatly showing how Microsoft is a single point of failure for the operations of a lot of businesses.
Fortunately we only lost email. Probably sucks for someone but I can do anything urgent without it still. Anything that comes in by email is low priority and we have a phone number for anything important.
I didn’t think we would be having issues going into day 2.
Here is where status is being updated by Microsoft:
Well they tried to ask copilot to fix the outage, but nobody could access it today, and there’s noone left at Microsoft that knows how anything works
It’s almost like having your office software as a service it’s a bad idea
No, no, see management can direct their direct reports to call Microsoft and say “please escalate, urgent, unable to work” and the Telephone Support Representative who totally has power and authority to do something about this will get right on it. Oh, and if they don’t, nothing will happen. And if you threaten to leave Microsoft for someone else? They’ll laugh and laugh and laugh… “Good luck,” will be the last thing you hear.
Hooray.
But when a city or a country wants to switch somehow suddenly they’re swarmed by lobbyists.
Hoping that a few companies decide to migrate to free offline solutions after that
Hahaha.
Ha.
Hahahahaha.
Yeah no. No one ever got fired for going with Microsoft. It’s costly to migrate, and you’d get fired for a 20 minute outage.
No one got ever fired yet. If this is a serious slop issue, this can take weeks, even for someone with a massive developer base.
Mind that “free” doesn’t quite exists here; companies would need to administrer those (not so offline) solutions. And it’s unlikely that all small business will suddently hire IT guys for that. So what’s the alternative? Back to small unmaintained servers under the office desk configured by the owner’s cousin and never maintained? In these times it’s going to be a shit-show given how more intense vulnerabilities or miss configurations are exploited… From my point of vue there’s no good solution here.
I still don’t know what is the problem for small bisunesses to simply use offline locally installed office software, and why everything must be on the cloud. They often have a single person working on each document anyway
Well the top affected service was mail so hardly an offline service ;)
Oh, I thought it was the entire 365 suite…
I’m not quite sure how that was effectively affected ; we still have hard clients for those at work and they were still working. Minus Visio for which, thanks costs restrictions, we have only in the online version and that was ded. So we’re Copilot, power apps, forms…
Darn, Microsoft services are starting to become reachable this morning. I was hoping for an easier Friday.
It’s still down. 9 hours later. Don’t worry. It’s only everything.
Edited again: It’s STILL down, 24 hours later- only the list of services that are fucked got LONGER.
GTFO of the cloud, people.
time to break this company up.
no single company’s fuckup should take out a giant swath of the global economy.
this is insanity.
This shit keeps happening and it will continue to happen because buisness majors love their monoculture.
You’ll never get fired for going with IBM.
I mean, RHEL is it’s own kind of obnoxious.
Crowd strike
Too much centralzation of email etc. is not healthy.
Yes, but users also should not just put all their eggs in the same basket: diversify and make them work hard to spy on you :D
Yet for some ungodly reason, teams still works. Fucking microsoft, can’t even fuck up correctly…
I’ve been sick most of the week and was surprised to see my missed email log was only 451 emails.
Then the number didn’t go up.
I’m in for some hurt when it comes back.
Speak for yourself, I have only been able to access teams from my phone all day and it’s been great honestly 😂
You are today’s lucky winner! I’m so jealous. They pivoted to trying to do everything over teams and… well, that ended predictably poorly. I just dipped lol, networks so hosed nobody noticed.
Teams costs extra, so it’s on a different system.
Still down on my end. My company decided (against my strong opinion) to use the whole microslop suite for the whole company and it’s been a quite… uneventful day. I’ve spent my day reinstalling DarkOSRE on my R36S, trying some new ports and roms… In 18 minutes I end my shift and I’m out until Monday. Meanwhile our IT dept is less than happy with the situation and the real possibility of having to come to the office during the weekend because everything is down and you can’t trust the system to send an alert if something happens.
Next time we have a talk, I’m gonna ask how did the outage go on their end and if they are still so adamantly defending the goodness of microslop.
I love it when core services are down. How am I going to know you have a problem if you can’t contact me? As far as I can tell everything we control must be good to go.
Seems to be back up here in England. It was down an hour ago. Kinda fucked with my work because my employers are Microsoft everything, for security reasons. Lol.
for security reasons
Can’t click on a phishing link if you can’t get any new emails. Seems pretty secure to me.
Makes me think maybe Microsoft have been listening to Morris’ rules of computer security :
- Do not own a computer.
- Do not power it on.
- Do not use it.
If you view all their actions and updates over the past decade in this light - they’ve been helping us, all along!
