i was around when they broke up Bell telephone and then ‘deregulation’ happened. Long distance calls are no longer an issue but spam calls can’t be dealt with. I quit answering the phone. If they can’t leave a voice mail, mark as spam.
Darn, Microsoft services are starting to become reachable this morning. I was hoping for an easier Friday.
Nothing of value was lost
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?
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.
In other news Microsoft has decided to rename it office suite from office 365 to
Office 364Office 363I really hope it’s LLMs fault lol
They’ll never admit it
This is why we don’t need RAM. So streamlined, you never have to even log in to get your email. That’s the future of computing.
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 nobody left at Microsoft that knows how anything works
Oh no! No logging into Microslop!
I hope the killbot drones running on Azure weren’t impacted…
Thankfully they are probably vibe-coding a solution as we speak!
You’re absolutely right. I shouldn’t have deleted the Microsoft production environment, and that’s on me.
~ MS 365 Copilot
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.
Wasn’t it like a month ago that some EU institutions rolled out Matrix as backup chat for Teams and people complained about it? I did not expect the people who insisted on having a backup for their critical tools would be proven right so fast.
Yeah the problem is the few of us who insist it be treated as a risk, and have it put up as an entry in the risk registers at our companies are driven out of town with pitchforks. And today, we aren’t even allowed to say “told you so” because the snowflakes who shouted louder than us are butthurt and run to execs. Fun times being in the IT sector nowadays.
In my experience, IT is rarely listened to. I suspect it’s just too ephemeral for people to understand. Even when shit hits the fan, they don’t understand the cause and effect.
Maybe it’s different at a company whose product is the tech itself, but when it’s not, you have to play a different game. It sucks, but it’s reality.
That sounds like the management in your company sucks 😩 You have my sympathies.
Thank you. Yes, yes it does. And of course after the migration decisions were made by others more than a year ago, and me inheriting it, NOW they want to know from me “do we have backups?” Uhm, how about you ask the guy who did the migration a year ago where in his plan he put that in?
