Re:Outlook is down, and so is Microsoft's status page
by don_esteban on Friday November 13, 2026 @01:25AM
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The other option is to not outsource everything to the cloud. Yeah, it is more convenient ... but in these times, being a bit more self reliant is not a bad thing.
Re:Outlook is down, and so is Microsoft's status page
by NetMageSCW on Friday November 13, 2026 @11:46AM
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In these times, paying more for that is not an option. Servers with lots of RAM are 5 times what they cost a couple of years ago. Cloud is a huge bargain today compared to running your own infrastructure.
Given that people on reddit claimed that in the entirety of New Zealand no real estate transactions can be settled, causing cascading failures [1]...
I think this might actually be the incident pushing governments to designate large online services such as MS 365, Gmail et al as critical infrastructure and force companies to massive, yet-unseen levels of transparency and regulation.
The EU is already itching to act ever since the Trump admin forced US Big Tech to terminate service to the ICC judges, and this here was a square own goal for Microsoft.
[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/sysadmin/comments/1xus565/comment/1...