Outlook is down, and so is Microsoft's status page

Re:Outlook is down, and so is Microsoft's status page by edstarch on Friday November 13, 2026 @03:38AM (#50480231)

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.

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Re:Outlook is down, and so is Microsoft's status page by cowlevel on Friday November 13, 2026 @04:01AM (#50480422)

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.

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Re:Outlook is down, and so is Microsoft's status page by dijksterhuis on Friday November 13, 2026 @08:44AM (#50483379)

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