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

Re:Outlook is down, and so is Microsoft's status page by pasc1878 on Friday November 13, 2026 @05:47AM (#50481566)

All email was like this at one time. In the 90s we were told to expect emails to take a few hours.

If you want immediate response use IRC or actually phone someone.

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Re:Outlook is down, and so is Microsoft's status page by bradleyjg on Friday November 13, 2026 @07:11AM (#50482389)

If was like this because it was designed before networks were expected to be fully connected at any one time. Mail would hop its way towards its destination as intermediate nodes dialed in over modem to upstreams.

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Re:Outlook is down, and so is Microsoft's status page by dd8601fn on Friday November 13, 2026 @09:50AM (#50484357)

It was like that because each check/send process was pop3 call that looked more like processing a queue of work for offline clients.

Now it’s more like being subscribed and listening for events.

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Re:Outlook is down, and so is Microsoft's status page by Reason077 on Friday November 13, 2026 @12:25PM (#50486686)

The transition from POP to IMAP was a big step forward, back in the day.

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Re:Outlook is down, and so is Microsoft's status page by icedchai on Friday November 13, 2026 @09:51AM (#50484375)

I had email at my house, in the early 90's, over a UUCP feed. It polled every 4 hours.

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