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Microsoft Outage Knocks Out Email for Businesses, Police, and Hospitals: The tech giant is racing to fully restore Outlook, Teams, and other Microsoft 365 services following a widespread outage. (gizmodo.com)
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[–] [S] 82 points 1 day ago (11 children)

Amazing how we built a world where hospitals, police departments and governments all depend on one company’s email servers, then call it resilience. Microsoft 365 goes down and suddenly the most reliable communication protocol is a piece of paper taped to a door. Maybe redundancy deserves a bigger budget than Copilot.

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  • [–] 54 points 1 day ago

    Reminder - the "cloud" is not some magical place where everything is preserved. It's simply someone else's computer. They might be very large and robust, backup everything, and have lots of redundancy to stay viable. Or not.

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  • [–] 17 points 1 day ago* (4 children)

    I think, this is especially relevant in Europe. The open source / European tech services could be used as a backup at least. It's very shortsighted to rely just on one service provider. Such service disruptions like the recent one make one wonder about when Europe finally gets a wake up call and we truly look at how we can build own tech properly.

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  • [–] [S] 11 points 1 day ago (2 children)

    Absolutely! It is simply unbelievable how one-dimensional large corporations and public authorities in particular are: completely dependent on a single source! We need: https://sovereignty.it/

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  • [–] 11 points 1 day ago* (1 child)

    They aren't ignorant of the danger. How many IT stories have we all seen where the management and CEO levels are told about the best practices and needed tech and investments to avoid problems, and once the costs are mentioned... "well, we'll have to table that for now..." No excuse for these big companies at all.

    Public entities have their own steps where it gets shelved, but it's the same idea. Risk management, and maybe make a dime now if we can push it to later (or never). Exactly how things like Fukushima happened.

    Meanwhile we have other organizations who don't get near enough funding for what they do, and yet they turn no money and problems into long range successes. NASA/JPL is always my go-to for that. Btw, Voyager 1 is approaching its one light-day mark on Nov. 18th. Still working to some degree, still doing science.

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  • [–] 1 point 22 hours ago*

    Btw, Voyager 1 is approaching its one light-day mark on Nov. 18th. Still working to some degree, still doing science.

    Wow! You should make a post of that and post on space or something.

    A man made object traveled the distance it takes light to travel ONE DAY. That's much more interesting than seeing the world burn because Microsoft.

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  • [–] 2 points 9 hours ago

    I think we need a solid Active Directory alternative that could be used somehow as a drop in replacement. And open source of course.

    Once a business is not dependant of AD they can change other part to non Microsoft software.

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