Microsoft sure looking like a single point of failure.

I keep hearing about how it resulted in cascading failure and, really, the loss of email and calendaring shut down most companies - doesn’t matter if it’s self hosted or Gmail or EOL, you’re having an IT sick day if email stops.

The fact that so many companies rely on Exchange Online is the problem. Email is designed to be distributed and moderately resilient - it’s why spam is such a problem still. It’s not that all the eggs are in one basket, it’s that all the companies are sharing two eggs.

Also, stuffing all the copilot data into hidden exchange folders was a choice. I’m not convinced it’s a wrong one, it’s just an interesting one that has created a dependency. I don’t understand yet the reliance of Intune and Defender on Exchange yet.

Thank you, Linux and FOSS alternatives for preserving my peace. ☺️🫶

Well obviously they need to put that stuff in "the cloud".

I have it on good authority (my boss) that: "The cloud" is secure. "The cloud" automatically scales to meet the demand. "The cloud" is resilent. "The cloud" never goes down.

That's why we are rushing to put all our systems in "the cloud".

What could go wrong ;-) ? /s

Microsofts best creationist experts working on it

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Of course the week I take off this happens, man was I concerned when I didn’t receive my paystub, will companies learn to not rely on Microsoft? Doubt it.