Re:Outlook is down, and so is Microsoft's status page
by somenameforme on Thursday November 12, 2026 @11:36PM
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11? Everything has been downhill since Windows 7. 'Upgrades' since then have relied almost entirely on coercion through forced obsolescence, or by outright force as with Windows 10 when your options were to upgrade now or 'ask again in 5 minutes.' And then it installs it anyhow next time you reboot. They apparently can't backport hardware/API support into Win 7, but they certainly were capable of backporting the 'telemetry' to it.
The irony is that I can finally get out of the Microsoft ecosystem thanks to Microsoft. The only thing that was keeping me there before is Visual Studio (which runs reliably only on Windows). But with the advent of LLMs and Visual Studio Code (which is cross platform), I haven't touched Visual Studio in months, and doubt I ever will again. LLMs should also ease the transition into a Linux ecosystem. RTFM? Nah ATFLLM.
The irony is that I can finally get out of the Microsoft ecosystem thanks to Microsoft. The only thing that was keeping me there before is Visual Studio (which runs reliably only on Windows). But with the advent of LLMs and Visual Studio Code (which is cross platform), I haven't touched Visual Studio in months, and doubt I ever will again. LLMs should also ease the transition into a Linux ecosystem. RTFM? Nah ATFLLM.