Re:Microsoft Outlook/365 still down after 12 hours
by EmX_3000 on Friday November 13, 2026 @04:52AM
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Mythical man month, maybe throwing everybody in the company at it isn't the right thing to do. But they must be in a panic, and their own communications internally may well be hampered, could be MS everything is out for MS as well as everybody else.
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Re:Microsoft Outlook/365 still down after 12 hours
by flir on Friday November 13, 2026 @05:06AM
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I've seen the response to an emergency be "get every dev in a big room with some non-technical middle managers to direct them, and have them all talk at once". My jaw was on the floor.
"When in danger, when in doubt, run in circles, scream and shout".
Re:Microsoft Outlook/365 still down after 12 hours
by TheOtherHobbes on Friday November 13, 2026 @05:49AM
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Someone's going to have to write the Mythical AI Month after this.
If you lose 90% of developers to AI, but everything breaks, how much money have you saved?
The underlying moral issue is that the management and money people have contempt for people who don't manage and don't have money, including both customers and enginers.
It's not just an inhumane system - although it is, that, brutally - but it's also technologically dysfunctional.