I know that this is likely a cascade of AI reliance, technical incompetence, and horrible management culture at Microsoft, but:

Some of me is thinking that they probably can’t communicate with each other effectively because their outlook is also down.

The shitty, over-complicated, over-integrated, too heavy and inter-linked product design that MS has used to force and keep businesses locked into “their” ecosystem is coming home to roost.

Serves the industry right for trusting these fuckers for 30+ years.

Maybe quit trying to figure out what the vibe coder did and ask the ai to do it from scratch again, this time with the prompt 'make no mistakes'?

I jest, of course. But I can't imagine a world with software systems that on one understands.

Could we just leave it off for the rest of the year? Heck, shut down google, AWS and meta too. We needed this

Microsoft is doing this to avoid a situation where emails which have been sent - such as from a Gmail account or something else unaffected - still ultimately arrive when things are fixed.

Ah well there’s the problem. Maybe Microsoft should work on making sure the emails arrive rather than avoiding that.

There's already a Wikipedia page for it! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2026_Microsoft_outage

Microsoft says Copilot is having difficulties with resolving the issues.

Is this seriously still going on?? That might be the most long running outage like this which I'm aware of

They shouldn't have cancelled that Anthropic subscription

AI is an IOU to technical debt that will never ever be paid and is basically going to cripple a lot of businesses.