Don't celebrate just yet - they might still figure out how to fix it.

BitWrangler wrote on 2026-11-12, 20:35:

Just a heads up before you're ripping your machines apart trying to get stuff to work again, it ain't you.

Thanks, I was indeed wondering what is up with my internet connection 😀

BitWrangler wrote on 2026-11-12, 20:35:

May have been out since around 1:30 EST.

That's about the time I lost my work email. It was unreliable for a few hours before that, though.

Strangely, I never lost Teams.

They want us to rely on them but they are centralised nothing is reliable like that and it always takes all services down because they are together.
I remember YouTube spat the pacifier a few times and other things went down with it too like discord.
Centralising services is to maximise profit. Doesn't guarantee reliability.

zapbuzz wrote on Yesterday, 03:15:

They want us to rely on them but they are centralised nothing is reliable like that and it always takes all services down because they are together.
I remember YouTube spat the pacifier a few times and other things went down with it too like discord.
Centralising services is to maximise profit.

If you have enough money they will sell you a product called GCC High which is a full copy of the entire cloud stack in your own isolated DC

Weirdly, when running around this evening, a couple of stores had notices saying their automatic doors weren't working.... I'm thinking, "Surely THAT isn't related??? What dumbass would design local control systems that needed cloud???" then I remembered Nest, lightbulbs, fridges etc. so IDK it it was or not, but super coincidental two stores had them out at same time during this.

Bounce That server.

We use it at work. It loaded up at 02:40GMT but then dropped out seconds later and as far as I know is still out at 07:13GMT

ElectroSoldier wrote on Yesterday, 07:13:

We use it at work. It loaded up at 02:40GMT but then dropped out seconds later and as far as I know is still out at 07:13GMT

Been out for an entire work day in Australia. The last message I got was 7:30pm last night it's now 6:16pm with no resolution. At work we use google workspace so we weren't affected but a lot of our clients were.

Is Microsoft still trying to run their businesses on a MS access database ?

Well the error is quite obvious...

Blue screen of death.

That was very common back in the 1990s
But I have not seen that allot with windows-10 h2
Or windows-11

My desktop computers has been running very reliable
Except for the system updates that require a restart.

Back in the 1990s we had Yahoo! mail, Netscape mail,
Sun microsystems mail, novell mail, groupwise,
Unix mail, linux mail, and lots of web portals with
Their own mail servers.

Snail mail too. Remember that ?

And lots of corporate chat programs like
Pal, pine, etc.

It’s a good idea to have backup communications.

BitWrangler wrote on Yesterday, 05:12:

Weirdly, when running around this evening, a couple of stores had notices saying their automatic doors weren't working.... I'm thinking, "Surely THAT isn't related??? What dumbass would design local control systems that needed cloud???" then I remembered Nest, lightbulbs, fridges etc. so IDK it it was or not, but super coincidental two stores had them out at same time during this.

its bad enough when a global email service goes out, but this kinda stuff - "internet of things" - is where the big vulnerabilities lie.

I'm very deliberate about my own devices like fridge etc not ever being online, but i imagine stores, local government, emergency services etc aren't, so we are all made vulnerable by this

a recent example in the news
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2026_European_cold_chain_hacks

still no email so i can't do an authentication of a game launcher no games today boo
still better than mail.com they telemarket you if you loose your password.
all webmail is balls anyhow

I like to see such outages happening!
Hopefully, it forces some people to start thinking, and convinces them to avoid relying on online services.

Reminded me about a recent case when a woman in front of me tried to buy some ice-cream, but the card payment didn't work...
And guess what: she had no cash - not even for such a small purchase as ice-cream!
For me, that's utterly retarded - it's "Idiocracy" came true 500 years too soon!
I'm sure to have a lot of fun watching such things happening everywhere when a major blackout occurs, which - considering the pushing of "renewable" (actually: UNRELIABLE) energy sources - is *guaranteed* to happen, sooner or later.

Our IT department blabs on so much about risk analysis and risk mitigation. And they progressively put all our eggs in the Microsoft basket, pushing us onto Sharepoint and Teams and 365. I expect there will be a rear guard action to defend the policy. Everything is working as intended etc.

Latest reports is it's all coming back slowly and it was M$ that shot themselves in the foot.

Watch for upcoming product updates in light of this, Microsoft 363. 🤣

my ms webmail works again i can play games!

BitWrangler wrote on Yesterday, 16:33:

Latest reports is it's all coming back slowly and it was M$ that shot themselves in the foot.

Watch for upcoming product updates in light of this, Microsoft 363. 🤣

🤣

Maybe they'll just add an asterisk.

Microsoft 365*

*Services available for up to 365 days per year.