Re:Outlook is down, and so is Microsoft's status page
by cwillu on Thursday November 12, 2026 @03:10PM
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Downdetector is a survey, not a detector, and suffers from user confusion when a high-profile service is actually down, as users start reporting unrelated things
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Re:Outlook is down, and so is Microsoft's status page
by hunter2_ on Thursday November 12, 2026 @03:55PM
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Especially when looking constitutes reporting (Schrödinger's downdetector?) and people look at everything after showing up for one thing.
Re:Outlook is down, and so is Microsoft's status page
by kube-system on Thursday November 12, 2026 @05:21PM
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It also suffers from people reporting functionally related (but not technical related) things.
Any other service that interacts with Outlook in some way will create downstream effects in other services expecting Outlook to work normally.