Microsoft Outlook/365 still down after 12 hours

Re:Microsoft Outlook/365 still down after 12 hours by Take8435 on Friday November 13, 2026 @07:15AM (#50482435)

Are those numbers accurate now that 60k were offered buyouts?

Anyone want to guess if any of those afflicted _could have_ caught an issue that may have prevented this disaster?

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Re:Microsoft Outlook/365 still down after 12 hours by poilcn on Friday November 13, 2026 @07:23AM (#50482505)

They haven't left the company yet

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Re:Microsoft Outlook/365 still down after 12 hours by Take8435 on Friday November 13, 2026 @07:25AM (#50482535)

Do you think those offered buyouts may have less incentive to focus as much?

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Re:Microsoft Outlook/365 still down after 12 hours by afavour on Friday November 13, 2026 @08:02AM (#50482922)

1) they haven’t left yet

2) they’re only expecting 10% or so to take the buyouts, so more like 6,000

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Re:Microsoft Outlook/365 still down after 12 hours by heisenbit on Friday November 13, 2026 @08:05AM (#50482950)

Now what if those were mythical 10x engineers?

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Re:Microsoft Outlook/365 still down after 12 hours by dv_dt on Friday November 13, 2026 @08:37AM (#50483299)

imho, especially in large tech orgs, every engineer is a 10x engineer for the right circumstances. But they're 1x engineers the rest of the time. But the whole reason to keep them around is you get the 10x performance when it's needed. Perhaps when a massive outage occurs

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Re:Microsoft Outlook/365 still down after 12 hours by donny2018 on Friday November 13, 2026 @12:20PM (#50486622)

Any experienced dev at any org who knows how to deal with that particular pile of mess because it has been their job for at least half a decade is 10x developer.

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