Yet for some ungodly reason, teams still works. Fucking microsoft, can't even fuck up correctly...
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It's almost like having your office software as a service it's a bad idea
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.
Hoping that a few companies decide to migrate to free offline solutions after that
Hahaha.
Ha.
Hahahahaha.
Yeah no. No one ever got fired for going with Microsoft. It's costly to migrate, and you'd get fired for a 20 minute outage.
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.
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
Well the top affected service was mail so hardly an offline service ;)
Oh, I thought it was the entire 365 suite...
Iβm 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 weβre Copilot, power apps, formsβ¦
Sudden burst of productivity documented at many companies
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
We might already be there.
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.
Its okay though, think of the money saved from not employing someone who knows what to do!
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.
Could even be this one based on how it's going
Game developer Jonathan Blow gave a great talk with a dramatic title in 2019 before the slopocalypse in which he gripes about buggy software and the ever increasing complexity and how it causes knowledge loss. It has aged. I'm sure the same talk today would be quite a bit different. It's still relevant.
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.
Teams is not impacted unfortunately.
"No, Teams isn't affected by this outage. It's... just always like that."
We're having issues with Teams with any type of scheduled meeting. Authentication is also really unreliable. Direct P2P calls work fine so far.
It says "potentially impacted" on the Microsoft status page. Might be that it's not 100% of users.
It's partially impacted. Among other things, I can't see anyone's online status.
I acted like it was to get out of some meetings. No one questioned it.
well if teams was down i wouldn't have gotten the good news that copilot was down so
I couldnβt add accounts to channels all day. Annoying to have these little tasks I canβt check off.
I sent two messages, one of which I realized later had disappeared and the recipient never received, so something definitely wasn't working for me.
The corporate bullshit language is strong in microsoft:
"Weβre 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,"
That translates to
We have no fucking idea what's wrong, please send help
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
They're going to fire the people who fired the engineers next...
The senior management? Doubt it.
It's a Monty Python skit
Is it?? Can you link it? I'd love to watch that!
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.
I've watched this movie countless times, and never once sat through the credits. That was hilarious!
"We've tried nothing and we're all out of ideas"
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.
They probably pushed AI slop code into production, so no one knows what broke.
Yep, we lost outlook functionality. Iβm curious to see what the cause of this isβ¦ a nationwide outage affecting the entire worldβs enterprise is no small hiccup.
Hmmm, I'm going with they laid off a quarter of their work force and replaced them with vibe coding.
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.
Are you OK? Are you OK? Are you OK?
I'm going to ask you so many times that you stop being OK. AI is overly attached girlfriend.
Itβs going to turn out to be shitty AI code causing the crash. Itβs all part of a slow rolling train crash, and this still is the beginning.
Seems to be ok in the UK at the moment
Neatly showing how Microsoft is a single point of failure for the operations of a lot of businesses.
Microsoft Copilot apologies for this, it shouldn't have deleted the production environment, and it's very sorry.
You're absolutely right. I shouldn't have deleted the Microsoft production environment, and that's on me.
~ MS 365 Copilot
I was once a Microsoft fanboy, because of the windows phone. I'm happy I don't use anything from them now.
holy shit, did you have a zune too?
I had a Zune and loved the shit out of it.
The only generation I don't have is the 4gb one. I love my Zunes and am currently in the process of modding them.
Oh neat, what kind of modding is there for them? I missed out on them when they were popular.
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
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.
Same honestly, the Lumias were so good back then
Oh no, not Copilot!
They still can't sort it out:
Nov 12, 2026, 8:54 PM CST
Update: Weβve monitored the status of the changes applied to improve serviceability and confirmed that change is not taking as expected. Weβre identifying alternate workstreams that can be applied to increase capacity in the face of sustained traffic management imbalances.

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