Microsoft Office 365 is down worldwide

Microsoft Community ^ | 2/1/2013 | fulltlt

[fulltlt]

Microsoft exchange online email is down worldwide.

[discostu]

Why I think the cloud is a fad in a nutshell.

[rarestia]

LMAO! My company wants to go to MS365 and “the cloud.” This is gonna be fun.

[Former Proud Canadian]

I can’t think of a single advantage to using “the cloud”.

[dfwgator]

There are some good things about the Cloud, but no way is it for mission-critical stuff.

[asinclair]

And so we come full circle. The reason so many Apple ][ computers were snuck into offices around the USA 40 years ago is because the Almighty Mainframe, the central point of computing, was not up to the job that could be done quickly with a "Visicalc computer". The idea behind the Microcomputer Revolution was to decentralize, so that a mainframe outage didn't stop people from working.

Who says the pendulum doesn't swing back and forth?

[Dead Corpse]

Yep.

[RJS1950]

The software as a web service concept was pushed by MS and other companies back in the late 90s. It was way too early for the technology back then and it isn’t much better now.

The “cloud” is presented as this mystical storage and web services super machine somewhere out there in the ether. It is just collections of servers located in some physical building on the ground, somewhere in the world. Servers fail and if the failover plan also fails it can be disasterous to entities that push critical services and data into the “cloud”. This is not that much different than the outsourcing craze back in the 90s. Put your critical data and resources into the hands of an outside company that has no real stake in your success and you are incurring a huge risk.

[azcap]

I can think of a dozen advantages to Office 365 and cloud computing. I can also think of one dealbreaking disadvantage and millions of people are getting that lesson today.

[Bubba]

GET A MAC.

[longtermmemmory]

The cloud is a marketing gimick for suckers who are too democrat party to realize cloud is just code for “storage on my server”.

BTW storage those suckers are too lazy to realize costs money to their bottom line.

[IFly4Him]

back online 10 min ago [at least for me]

[Tallguy]

I have 3 email accounts forwarding to my MS365 account. I don’t see any service interruption. Only problem I has with the service is that it didn’t pickup mail from remote accounts reliably. Never could get to the bottom of that, so I had each of the other accounts ‘Push’ the mail over to MS365 instead. Works better that way.

[Red Badger]

Must be bad weather..........it’s ‘cloudy’...........

[Lazamataz]

The Cloud is a very bad idea.

[copaliscrossing]

There are some good things about the Cloud, but no way is it for mission-critical stuff.

Another IT guy and I were talking about this subject and this cloud stuff really is starting to "cloud" the judgement of a lot of corporate decision makers and it is getting out of hand.

The biggest pitfall is once you go into the cloud, it is darn near impossible to get out of the cloud. If your company decides to go "cloud" and divests of a lot of their IT infrastructure including their either homegrown software or off the shelf stuff, it is almost impossible to reconstruct that 2, 5, 10, 15 years down the road. You have locked yourself in. The funniest part about all this is that a lot of these management types have become "drunk" on the ability to walk into their IT manager(s) and ask for a functional software change or new program and actually see that change come to fruition within a reasonable time period. They will get a rude awakening when they float into the "cloud" for their total app and data storage needs.

With all that said, there is a niche for the cloud in off-site storage and perhaps very small businesses that don't want any IT infrastructure to worry about and can function with "off the shelf" cloud solutions. But that is a very limited sector of the market.

Interesting times we live in.

[fulltlt]

back online here too.

[Moonman62]

They are renaming it to Office 364.

[discostu]

Doesn’t matter what brand you have if the other side is down.

[Moonman62]

I remember back in the old days, discoveries of problems in MSFT software would cause the stock price to go up, because they believed in the saying, “never let a crisis go to waste.”