That why you never shoud rely on one company…
TOO MANY universities also depend on outlook for all its needs.
Here in Québec its an absolute shame. Every college and university is 100% hooked on MS. To the point where students are obligated to have a cell phone and install MS authentificator. I am the most hated teacher by the tech people when I come around with my Linux laptop, graphene phone and all my FOSS softwares. Meanwhile, when everyone was crying this week, I had all my files and services available on my Nextcloud instance.
Meanwhile companies still running Microsoft office 2012 are like…
Libreoffice wins again :3
Seems like a pretty big single point of failure for running basic society.
when you fire 60,000 staff…
and code with AI…
Is it still down?
They can’t get it up
Hospital I worked for just merged with another one, and they decided to use teams instead of WebEx. So some cum stain making a half a million or more a year, who probably owns Microsoft stock made that decision, and now we have no fallback if one of the systems go down.
People over 55 shouldn’t be making decisions. Boomers are fucking cancer. We need to round them up and put them in the camps built for ice
Boomers are 75-yo, not 55. If you want to hate on GenX in tech, I’ll remind you that we invented this shit. Along with elder Millennials, we were the only generation in history to straddle the digital divide. No one before or since can have that perspective on tech.
Classic Gen X comment - most covertly narcissistic generation in history. The most unique, the most victimised, the most forgotten, the unsung “heroes”.
The world’s problems are always the generation before or after, and definitely not the generation running every single company and country into the ground simultaneously from the second they finally came to power without an adult in the room left to supervise them.
Gen x is the smallest populated generation, we are not running much.
Racing to restore
I love that they’re not using their own LLM, and that it’s probably accurate.
Copilot was down too.
Oops! You forgot to tell it not to hallucinate.
Try again!
Wasn’t there another outage before, blamed on an antivirus, which was also due to microslop’s fragile codebase?
Crowdstrike crash? It was just 2024 and people can’t even remember it, and crowdstrike is still in business. These crashes cost millions of dollars but crowdstrike didn’t dent M$ bottom line and this likely won’t either. M$ has already apologized for this incident. Just keep sending your subscription fees and maybe have a shot of tequila this weekend and have a nice chat with copilot.
Downside of having monopolies.
Downside of having monopolies.
One of the many downsides.
Been saying, almost every gripe about capitalism is really about monopolies. Then comes the inevitable argument that capitalism’s end game is monopoly. No, it’s not. Adam Smith himself wrote that monopolies are destructive to any economic system. And no economic system will function for long with all but zero government oversight.
wonder how much this has to do with vibe coding
Or firing workers
Nothing!!!11
I hope this happens a lot more often.
Don’t worry, when all the codebase is AI general slop that only AI can interpret, the AI is going to knock itself out taking the rest of the world with it
Amazing how we built a world where hospitals, police departments and governments all depend on one company’s email servers, then call it resilience. Microsoft 365 goes down and suddenly the most reliable communication protocol is a piece of paper taped to a door. Maybe redundancy deserves a bigger budget than Copilot.
I mean, the decades of reliability show it was a smart choice during that time period.
Reminder that eicker is an undisclosed AI bot who advertised ai services in their bio.
Reminder - the “cloud” is not some magical place where everything is preserved. It’s simply someone else’s computer. They might be very large and robust, backup everything, and have lots of redundancy to stay viable. Or not.
I think, this is especially relevant in Europe. The open source / European tech services could be used as a backup at least. It’s very shortsighted to rely just on one service provider. Such service disruptions like the recent one make one wonder about when Europe finally gets a wake up call and we truly look at how we can build on tech properly.
I think we need a solid Active Directory alternative that could be used somehow as a drop in replacement. And open source of course.
Once a business is not dependant of AD they can change other part to non Microsoft software.
Absolutely! It is simply unbelievable how one-dimensional large corporations and public authorities in particular are: completely dependent on a single source! We need: https://sovereignty.it/
They aren’t ignorant of the danger. How many IT stories have we all seen where the management and CEO levels are told about the best practices and needed tech and investments to avoid problems, and once the costs are mentioned… “well, we’ll have to table that for now…” No excuse for these big companies at all.
Public entities have their own steps where it gets shelved, but it’s the same idea. Risk management, and maybe make a dime now if we can push it to later (or never). Exactly how things like Fukushima happened.
Meanwhile we have other organizations who don’t get near enough funding for what they do, and yet they turn no money and problems into long range successes. NASA/JPL is always my go-to for that. Btw, Voyager 1 is approaching its one light-day mark on Nov. 18th. Still working to some degree, still doing science.
Btw, Voyager 1 is approaching its one light-day mark on Nov. 18th. Still working to some degree, still doing science.
Wow! You should make a post of that and post on space or something.
A man made object traveled the distance it takes light to travel ONE DAY. That’s much more interesting than seeing the world burn because Microsoft.
Japanese stock traders switched to their redundant system which is fax.
