Re:Outlook is down, and so is Microsoft's status page
by ratelimitsteve on Thursday November 12, 2026 @02:17PM
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I want to believe that cause is that all the world's computing power is dedicated to calculating the incredibly large balance in my checking account but my desire is the only thing I can find to support that hypothesis.
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Re:Outlook is down, and so is Microsoft's status page
by ericfrederich on Thursday November 12, 2026 @02:39PM
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An estimated 2.6 million pre-orders for Xbox alone. 2.6 million people downloading 200+ GB is not nothing.
If they roll it out evenly the week prior, then today (1/7th) is just 75 PB. To get that done in a single day would require a sustained 6.9 Tbps.
I'm sure this is all handled by a CDN at some level... but again it's not nothing.
Re:Outlook is down, and so is Microsoft's status page
by zamadatix on Thursday November 12, 2026 @02:56PM
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It is bsacially nothing once you remember the cloud isn't one computer either. I want to say Azure was already 4 million (beefy ass) severs over 5 years ago, and not all of them & their associated bandwidths are assigned to the same sets of services.