Re:Outlook is down, and so is Microsoft's status page
by EvanAnderson on Friday November 13, 2026 @08:34AM
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I haven't had occasion to spin-up Exchange SE yet, but I've read plenty of descriptions of other admins running it. I have no reason to believe Exchange itself relies on any centralized features. "New Outlook" has been alleged to use centralized servers even when connected to an on-prem Exchange SE install, and given that it's "modern" MSFT software that wouldn't surprise me, but anybody stupid enough to use "new Outlook" gets what they deserve.
In a sane world the CTOs choosing this would be held accountable. The massive global economic fragility which is created by the centralisation of society is a massive risk. Diversity is important, we see it time and time again how optimisation causes panic, from crowdstrike to microsoft. When your outsourced provider is "too big to fail", you have a problem that government needs to deal with.