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Re:Microsoft Outlook/365 still down after 12 hours by sterlind on Friday November 13, 2026 @03:18AM (#50480068)
he was such a nice and effective CEO the first few years. he's really changed.
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Re:Microsoft Outlook/365 still down after 12 hours by bell-cot on Friday November 13, 2026 @03:45AM (#50480290)
Executive compensation corrupts, chief executive compensation corrupts absolutely.
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Re:Microsoft Outlook/365 still down after 12 hours by pjmlp on Friday November 13, 2026 @03:53AM (#50480347)
Even with some of the Microsoft <3 Open Source, I do miss the Steve Balmer era in regards to Windows development experience.
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Re:Microsoft Outlook/365 still down after 12 hours by cyberax on Friday November 13, 2026 @04:04AM (#50480452)
Not really. He killed the QA department immediately and consciously put MS onto the "slide into mediocrity" path.
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Re:Microsoft Outlook/365 still down after 12 hours by motionlessveloc on Friday November 13, 2026 @04:23AM (#50480613)
Google killed its test engineers (or, rather, forcibly merged them into SWE) at around the same time without measurably denting uptime.
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Re:Microsoft Outlook/365 still down after 12 hours by skywhopper on Friday November 13, 2026 @04:53AM (#50480927)
Yet.
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Re:Microsoft Outlook/365 still down after 12 hours by motionlessveloc on Friday November 13, 2026 @06:18AM (#50481906)
This happened in 2015.
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Re:Microsoft Outlook/365 still down after 12 hours by NamTaf on Friday November 13, 2026 @12:04PM (#50486389)
Can't have downtime if you kill everything you create before it can fail :)
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Re:Microsoft Outlook/365 still down after 12 hours by kakacik on Friday November 13, 2026 @04:38AM (#50480769)
Was he? I struggle to see it even in hindsight, and definitely his moves were bunch of FU to common users. Maybe in some specific area you care about, but not their core products like windows and office
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Re:Microsoft Outlook/365 still down after 12 hours by Markoff on Friday November 13, 2026 @05:42AM (#50481509)
yeah very effective, he fired 90% of our Windows Store team (reviewing the apps) in the first year to replace people with automation, I survived up to the last round of firing after which they kept ~20 employees out of original ~200
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