Re:Outlook is down, and so is Microsoft's status page
by roamerz on Friday November 13, 2026 @01:43AM
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I think scale is the keyword there..
Re:Outlook is down, and so is Microsoft's status page
by Arbortheus on Friday November 13, 2026 @03:58AM
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People expect software to be feature rich, complex and solve all the world’s problems. And if you don’t do that, the vibe coded competition will beat your cleanly architected product commercially.
Re:Outlook is down, and so is Microsoft's status page
by gpvos on Friday November 13, 2026 @06:02AM
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Indeed, it's an expectation problem, and it's even worse in higher management.
Re:Outlook is down, and so is Microsoft's status page
by cowlevel on Friday November 13, 2026 @08:13AM
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It's not even better though. It doesn't have more features because it's a distributed system. It isn't faster because it's a distributed system. Maybe it has a bit higher uptime but nobody was paying too much attention to that anyway, except when it's down. And it's much better for your PR if, when it's down, it isn't down for everyone at once.
Re:Outlook is down, and so is Microsoft's status page
by shermantanktop on Friday November 13, 2026 @06:44PM
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Users don't expect infinite features.
Managers and marketers are the ones asking for all those useless features. And god forbid they run out features to ask for, because then they start asking for architecture v2.0 projects.
This is the inevitable consequence.
When I look across the scale of all the failures that have occurred in big tech over the past few years, my self-hosted solutions have been cheaper and more reliable. They are simple. They are small. They are easy to fix and diagnose. Because they're not trying to solve all the world's problems.