We do not lack the expertise, initiate. The servitors lit the wrong holy incense while the tech priest intoned the prayer of maintenance. Hail the omnisiah!

Sorry, I've worked in places of large scale an order of magnitude smaller than MS - the layers of control, redundancy, oversight, etc - I don't buy it was a simple mistake.

The same thing happened with aviation. The Max crashes happened and suddenly every minor aviation incident became national news. There are many such examples. Stories that would only have been covered in specialist publications break containment after a big story.

Big news companies cover what they think will get them clicks. Something being talked about more in the press doesn't mean its more common, just that mainstream media thinks its profitable to cover at the moment.

Thank you, a reminder to check our perceptual biases is always relevant. I don't think that it applies in this case, though. Shark attacks, train derailments, minor aviation incidents, et cetera, do indeed happen with regularity. But an email service outage that affects 450 million people, and a ground-stop order that affects every commercial flight in the United States, well, those are highly unusual events. Further, the very fact that they not proximately related seems to indicate (along with dozens of other indicators) that the foundations of our society are getting shaky, for whatever reason.

Thus, the reason I'd feel better if the two events were related, and the reason was an attack by malicious actors. Then, it would have a cause that was a one-off, rather than be part of a pattern.

Events happen.

Or as it is more commonly phrased:

Shit happens.