Microsoft Outlook/365 still down after 12 hours

Re:Microsoft Outlook/365 still down after 12 hours by pitabas106 on Friday November 13, 2026 @03:09AM (#50479989)

I have always felt it's less about email redundancy and more about having a backup plan. If outlook goes down tomorrow, does everyone know how to keep work and client communication moving? that is something worth thinking about.

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Re:Microsoft Outlook/365 still down after 12 hours by SubiculumCode on Friday November 13, 2026 @04:00AM (#50480405)

For the amount of uneeded emails about future emails about other emails, probably no real work was lost.

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Re:Microsoft Outlook/365 still down after 12 hours by emil-lp on Friday November 13, 2026 @04:28AM (#50480666)

Who wants to bet that Microsoft is using slack to communicate now?

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Re:Microsoft Outlook/365 still down after 12 hours by enopod_ on Friday November 13, 2026 @04:37AM (#50480757)

Fire up that old IRC server!

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Re:Microsoft Outlook/365 still down after 12 hours by EmX_3000 on Friday November 13, 2026 @05:02AM (#50481031)

There was no need to abandon perfectly working technology, with pain some people might learn this. Departmental servers, pesky lordly sysadmins, this was a working sustainable system that even scaled to the phone company and US government levels.

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Re:Microsoft Outlook/365 still down after 12 hours by nameless912 on Friday November 13, 2026 @02:45PM (#50488696)

You joke, but during my time at Netflix there were at least two layers of backup communication systems: if slack went down, we would jump to google chat, and if google chat somehow went down too, there was an IRC server and a (hardware) phone bridge. I never touched any of it because I wasn't an SRE, but I did read through the training one day because I was bored.

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