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[–] 133 points 1 day ago (4 children)

Yet for some ungodly reason, teams still works. Fucking microsoft, can't even fuck up correctly...

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  • [–] 5 points 1 day ago (1 child)

    Speak for yourself, I have only been able to access teams from my phone all day and it's been great honestly πŸ˜‚

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  • [–] 122 points 1 day ago (10 children)

    It's almost like having your office software as a service it's a bad idea

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  • [–] 18 points 1 day ago (1 child)

    No, no, see management can direct their direct reports to call Microsoft and say "please escalate, urgent, unable to work" and the Telephone Support Representative who totally has power and authority to do something about this will get right on it. Oh, and if they don't, nothing will happen. And if you threaten to leave Microsoft for someone else? They'll laugh and laugh and laugh... "Good luck," will be the last thing you hear.

    Hooray.

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  • [–] 24 points 1 day ago (7 children)

    Hoping that a few companies decide to migrate to free offline solutions after that

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

    Mind that "free" doesn't quite exists here; companies would need to administrer those (not so offline) solutions. And it's unlikely that all small business will suddently hire IT guys for that. So what's the alternative? Back to small unmaintained servers under the office desk configured by the owner's cousin and never maintained? In these times it's going to be a shit-show given how more intense vulnerabilities or miss configurations are exploited... From my point of vue there's no good solution here.

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  • [–] 2 points 19 hours ago* (3 children)

    I still don't know what is the problem for small bisunesses to simply use offline locally installed office software, and why everything must be on the cloud. They often have a single person working on each document anyway

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  • [–] 1 point 19 hours ago (2 children)

    Well the top affected service was mail so hardly an offline service ;)

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  • [–] 1 point 17 hours ago (1 child)

    Oh, I thought it was the entire 365 suite...

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  • [–] 1 point 17 hours ago

    I’m not quite sure how that was effectively affected ; we still have hard clients for those at work and they were still working. Minus Visio for which, thanks costs restrictions, we have only in the online version and that was ded. So we’re Copilot, power apps, forms…

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

    Sudden burst of productivity documented at many companies

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  • [–] 97 points 1 day ago (8 children)

    sooner or later, theres going to be an outage in their infrastructure or sloperating system that takes days or weeks to fix, because they have completely lost grasp of their codebase. this is the real existential risk

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  • [–] 29 points 1 day ago (1 child)
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    We crossed that line years ago. Windows development has just been layers of paint for years. Exchange has been on life support even though it underpins 365. The only Office updates have been style and icons (ok, and integration with OneDrive, but they still haven't implemented it for PowerPoint, shared editing still only works with word and excel). OneDrive is just SharePoint with a client app. Teams is also just SharePoint.

    There are no software engineers at Microsoft any more.

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  • [–] 12 points 1 day ago

    It's already happened, Halloween 2025ish? Front door was fully down for hours, and when it came back up people weren't allowed to make changes, and when people were allowed to, they had a 45 minute delay before they could take effect. Even now it takes awhile for the changes to go live.

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

    Cyber terrorists are responsible. They are holding the world to ransom. They have threatened that if their demands are not met, they will restore Teams to full functionality.

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  • [–] 145 points 1 day ago (13 children)

    Teams is not impacted unfortunately.

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

    It says "potentially impacted" on the Microsoft status page. Might be that it's not 100% of users.

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

    It's partially impacted. Among other things, I can't see anyone's online status.

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  • [–] 66 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (15 children)

    The corporate bullshit language is strong in microsoft:

    "We’re opening all available pathways to restore service, as our actions taken thus far have not provided the anticipated relief."

    "We're aggressively pursuing all pathways to reduce impact,"

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  • [–] 72 points 1 day ago (9 children)

    That translates to

    We have no fucking idea what's wrong, please send help

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  • [–] 27 points 1 day ago (7 children)

    Copilot is down, and they fired all their engineers. They don't know what to do, because their "brain" is part of (and likely caused) this outage lol

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  • [–] 2 points 22 hours ago (6 children)

    They're going to fire the people who fired the engineers next...

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  • [–] 1 point 13 hours ago (5 children)

    The senior management? Doubt it.

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  • [–] 1 point 12 hours ago (3 children)

    Is it?? Can you link it? I'd love to watch that!

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  • [–] 2 points 11 hours ago* (2 children)

    I heard it in one of their audio records but they also worked it into the opening credits of holy grail. Not exactly hard to find.

    https://youtu.be/SII-jhEd-a0

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  • [–] 62 points 1 day ago* (last edited 19 hours ago)

    It's still down. 9 hours later. Don't worry. It's only everything.

    Edited again: It's STILL down, 24 hours later- only the list of services that are fucked got LONGER.

    GTFO of the cloud, people.

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  • [–] 50 points 1 day ago

    They probably pushed AI slop code into production, so no one knows what broke.

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  • I feel my productivity increasing already!

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  • [–] 45 points 1 day ago* (12 children)

    Yep, we lost outlook functionality. I’m curious to see what the cause of this is… a nationwide outage affecting the entire world’s enterprise is no small hiccup.

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  • [–] 26 points 1 day ago (6 children)

    Latest as of 2026-11-12 2:18:39 PM (EST)

    Status: Investigating We've determined that the elevated load isn't driven by an overall increase in traffic, but by a large number of servers being unexpectedly unavailable, which is shifting load onto the remaining infrastructure. We're investigating what's causing these servers to become unavailable while we work to safely return them to service.

    They followed this one up to say the automated health checks were causing the servers to go unavailable.

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    Neatly showing how Microsoft is a single point of failure for the operations of a lot of businesses.

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  • [–] 32 points 1 day ago

    Microsoft Copilot apologies for this, it shouldn't have deleted the production environment, and it's very sorry.

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  • You're absolutely right. I shouldn't have deleted the Microsoft production environment, and that's on me.

    ~ MS 365 Copilot

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  • [–] 30 points 1 day ago*

    Nothing of value was lost

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  • [–] 25 points 1 day ago (13 children)

    I was once a Microsoft fanboy, because of the windows phone. I'm happy I don't use anything from them now.

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  • [–] 14 points 1 day ago (10 children)

    holy shit, did you have a zune too?

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  • [–] 19 points 1 day ago (3 children)

    I had a Zune and loved the shit out of it.

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

    The only generation I don't have is the 4gb one. I love my Zunes and am currently in the process of modding them.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 day ago (3 children)

    Oh neat, what kind of modding is there for them? I missed out on them when they were popular.

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

    Bigger drives by way of sd card adapters or ssd and adapters, and bigger batteries mostly. Some aspiring folks with more time and patience than me have also added in bluetooth and usb-c.

    In case you're interested here's a vid: https://youtu.be/E1ReVV_rjuc

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  • [–] 3 points 1 day ago (1 child)

    Whoa that's rad, thanks for sharing! Didn't think I'd watch that video all way through, way more interesting than I would have thought.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 day ago

    You are welcome! People are also doing the same with old iPods as well. I never had one of the larger iPods and after seeing those videos considered buying one on Ebay before I saw Zune modding was a thing.

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  • [–] 24 points 1 day ago (1 child)
  • [–] 24 points 1 day ago

    They still can't sort it out:

    Nov 12, 2026, 8:54 PM CST

    Update: We’ve monitored the status of the changes applied to improve serviceability and confirmed that change is not taking as expected. We’re identifying alternate workstreams that can be applied to increase capacity in the face of sustained traffic management imbalances.

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