Outlook is down, and so is Microsoft's status page

Re:Outlook is down, and so is Microsoft's status page by rsalus on Thursday November 12, 2026 @10:02PM (#50477607)

There are huge swaths of azure engineering teams that deploy things entirely manually via azure portal. Insane.

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Re:Outlook is down, and so is Microsoft's status page by beoberha on Thursday November 12, 2026 @10:46PM (#50477989)

Maybe years ago but definitely not today. But nice FUD

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Re:Outlook is down, and so is Microsoft's status page by Phileosopher on Friday November 13, 2026 @12:35AM (#50478792)

How much of it is deployed with nondeterministic tooling, though?

I remember their customer-side push for semantically merging Office and some other suites into something-or-other like 365 or Copilot, creating enormous confusion. I have difficulty believing MSFT distinguishes between handmade and machine-learning tooling in that type of environment.

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Re:Outlook is down, and so is Microsoft's status page by zombot on Friday November 13, 2026 @01:00AM (#50478945)

I suspect there's also a good amount of LLMs/Agents in the mix. They have been rechristened to Microslop for a reason.

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Re:Outlook is down, and so is Microsoft's status page by atom058 on Friday November 13, 2026 @11:15AM (#50485668)

There is nothing micro about the amount of slop. MacroSlop.

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Re:Outlook is down, and so is Microsoft's status page by roncesvalles on Friday November 13, 2026 @05:55AM (#50481676)

Even as recently as 2022 (when I used to work there), infra-as-code use at Microsoft was still very nascent and non-standard. Infra at Microsoft was mostly "ClickOps", with a ton of tribal undocumented knowledge about the right order to do things, changing the defaults, and things like that.

The amount of times we've had to reach out to an experienced person who had transferred to another team/org about processes in our team was ridiculous.

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