Re:Outlook is down, and so is Microsoft's status page
by azalemeth on Thursday November 12, 2026 @02:43PM
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That's a very painful lesson in "the cloud is just someone else's computer" to a crowd that normally are exposed to ideas like "software and IT are not our core competency"
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Re:Outlook is down, and so is Microsoft's status page
by hdgvhicv on Thursday November 12, 2026 @03:29PM
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When your system is down once a decade your boss yells and it’s your fault
When your outsourced system to Microsoft goes down every few months your boss can’t yell at you
Outsourcing is about shifting blame elsewhere
Re:Outlook is down, and so is Microsoft's status page
by bawolff on Thursday November 12, 2026 @03:52PM
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Which is why service level agreements were invented.
Re:Outlook is down, and so is Microsoft's status page
by antonvs on Thursday November 12, 2026 @04:08PM
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The idea is that it's someone else's computers that are managed more comprehensively than you could reasonably do yourself. But if you choose Microsoft to provide such a service for you, I don't know what to tell you.
Re:Outlook is down, and so is Microsoft's status page
by NetMageSCW on Thursday November 12, 2026 @06:48PM
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The truth is they are still managed better than most can reasonably so themselves.