Re:Outlook is down, and so is Microsoft's status page
by edstarch on Friday November 13, 2026 @03:38AM
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I literally had a person from IT tell me “Firefox is open source so it’s not secure, that’s why we have to use Edge” the other day. They are beyond hopeless.
Re:Outlook is down, and so is Microsoft's status page
by cowlevel on Friday November 13, 2026 @04:01AM
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And Microsoft is being smart by cultivating this worldview. Open source has no such thing. Microsoft also sells contracts to companies and open source does not. If "open source" does, it's someone like Red Hat who has to take on all the legal responsibility themselves, just like Microsoft does, and that makes the product as expensive as Microsoft's, only it's not subsidized by mass surveillance so it's even more expensive.
Re:Outlook is down, and so is Microsoft's status page
by dijksterhuis on Friday November 13, 2026 @08:44AM
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Re:Outlook is down, and so is Microsoft's status page
by hn_submit on Friday November 13, 2026 @06:41AM
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Where does corruption start and lobbying begin? American cloud providers are hosting more than $340 billion worth of European workloads on their infrastructure, including email, videoconferencing, office documents and storage.
If they transfer this to sovereign providers it would cost Big Tech serious money. So they're quietly lobbying to slow down the speed at which European nations are moving away from them.
Re:Outlook is down, and so is Microsoft's status page
by disgruntledphd2 on Friday November 13, 2026 @10:17AM
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> If they transfer this to sovereign providers it would cost Big Tech serious money. So they're quietly lobbying to slow down the speed at which European nations are moving away from them.
Yeah, this is definitely really important to them (not important enough for them to comply with the laws, but whatevs).
They're not corrupt (in a lot of cases), mostly just ignorant. Like, they don't understand the tech, and microsoft is safe, they're already using it so handing over large swathes of their infra to them seems reasonable.
MS have wonderful sales people, and this is why they do well with governments and large enterprises.
There's also a co-ordination problem, in that all of your counterparties (like your citizens, for instance) are familiar with MS and therefore it costs a bunch locally to move, for little short-term reward.
This is actually a place where (good) regulation could derisk a lot of these changes, but you'd need a committed group of politicians who can convince the civil servants to keep at it. It'll happen, but slowly and in starts over the next 5-15 years.