Posted on 11/13/2026 6:40:19 AM PST by Red Badger
If you use Microsoft Outlook — or, God be with you, if you're one of the unlucky millions who have to use Teams — then you were probably aware that much of the Microsoft network apparently got zapped into oblivion yesterday.
As CNBC reports:
Microsoft suffered a widespread outage on Thursday and Friday, as engineers scrambled to fix server issues that caused disruption to millions of its customers.
By "widespread," they mean "no one in 74 different countries could use Microsoft services."
Connectivity issues began shortly before 1 p.m. ET on Thursday and continued into Friday, with Outlook and Teams, along with multiple Microsoft 365 services such as Sharepoint and Copilot, affected. Numerous external services that connect with Microsoft products such as Outlook Calendar were also hit.
That thundering nationwide stampede you heard around 1:45 pm ET on Thursday was millions of workers realizing they were free to dip out and go home.
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Ping!.....................
I think we need to ask Kamala Harris about this cloud thing...
... and where is Al Gore, the inventor of the internet???
Over the last several months I have been migrating into Linux. The job would have been virtually impossible without AI helping me with the code, albeit I have caught many mistakes the bots have made. It has been an exceptionally painful process, especially bringing up a media computer/server on our network. Lots of transcribing code, walking back and forth to the computer to find out what didn’t work and why. What should be simple jobs seem to take forever. But at least my tower is now workable on Ubuntu and the media computer is getting there.
In the process, I ported over 265,000 emails from Outlook to Thunderbird a few months ago because of Microsoft’s drive to put everything on the cloud. I’m just not a fan of single point failure systems, nor of greedy power freaks taking control of my work, especially Bill Gates taking possession of my data.
Had? It’s still ongoing.
The latest report I have from Microsoft Cloud (I used to work for MSFT) is that some availability is improving across portions of the affected Microsoft 365 infrastructure, while some uses can still encounter intermittent issues as recovery continues.
I don’t know about you, but it’s really not fixed until all customers’ services—that were working yesterday—are restored.
Basically, this whole operation is run by Indians brought to the USA to replace white guys. Expect things like this to occur at an increasing rate over the next few years.
That’s a ton of work, and I can appreciate it, but I think outages like this goes FAR beyond the end point machines of your business. Changing the worker’s OS and mail client is one thing, but all those emails used by business, don’t stay local.
They are all out there, being sent, stored, forwarded and received in the web/cloud. If you have a supplier and or customer out there caught in a massive cloud outage, your business could still be losing a fortune.
. I’m just not a fan of single point failure systems,
our Founding Fathers were just like you.
Good thing we don’t use it here at work..................
I moved a bunch of files onto OneDrive Thursday night.
-PJ
-PJ
Murphy’s Law always applies.................
A couple years ago I read a survey where people actually believe that rain and storms impact “the cloud”.
Outlook? Mine seems to be just fine. Not that I would probably notice. 🤣👍
Not so fast. Do you have suppliers and customers for this work? Your work is a place, but what about those you sell or buy from?
What do they use?
Are there ways around the typical business process they use to reach you? Purchases, billing, shipments, all of that.
We’re still in 1985 era, here...............
I still have access to my work Slack account even though I am retired. It took all my restraint not to comment.
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