Re:Microsoft Outlook/365 still down after 12 hours
by TacticalCoder on Friday November 13, 2026 @09:40AM
(#50484199)
> ... but email is a backbone of the modern world
That's why most don't realize how big GMail is. Google has 1.8 billion GMail users, including a great many who are using their Google email professionally (no matter if it's a Google Workspace with their own domain or a redirection or just a plain GMail). Apple has 1 billion email users.
Microsoft 400 million and, granted, many businesses but it's not a fourth the number of email users GMail has.
And many, many, many people (real estate, delivery drivers, Uber and the likes) are using either Apple or GMail email from... Their phones.
It's a good thing it's only the "small" Microsoft email users base that is affected and not the 1.8 billion GMail users.
That's why most don't realize how big GMail is. Google has 1.8 billion GMail users, including a great many who are using their Google email professionally (no matter if it's a Google Workspace with their own domain or a redirection or just a plain GMail). Apple has 1 billion email users.
Microsoft 400 million and, granted, many businesses but it's not a fourth the number of email users GMail has.
And many, many, many people (real estate, delivery drivers, Uber and the likes) are using either Apple or GMail email from... Their phones.
It's a good thing it's only the "small" Microsoft email users base that is affected and not the 1.8 billion GMail users.