Cyber terrorists are responsible. They are holding the world to ransom. They have threatened that if their demands are not met, they will restore Teams to full functionality.
Teams had functionality?
Even cyber terrorists have standards
Funny, I haven’t noticed any outage on my Linux systems…
You’re absolutely right. I shouldn’t have deleted the Microsoft production environment, and that’s on me.
~ MS 365 Copilot
It’s actually 363 now, it was down yesterday and today
Nothing of value was lost
Neatly showing how Microsoft is a single point of failure for the operations of a lot of businesses.
Fortunately we only lost email. Probably sucks for someone but I can do anything urgent without it still. Anything that comes in by email is low priority and we have a phone number for anything important.
It’s almost like having your office software as a service it’s a bad idea
No, no, see management can direct their direct reports to call Microsoft and say “please escalate, urgent, unable to work” and the Telephone Support Representative who totally has power and authority to do something about this will get right on it. Oh, and if they don’t, nothing will happen. And if you threaten to leave Microsoft for someone else? They’ll laugh and laugh and laugh… “Good luck,” will be the last thing you hear.
Hooray.
But when a city or a country wants to switch somehow suddenly they’re swarmed by lobbyists.
Hoping that a few companies decide to migrate to free offline solutions after that
Hahaha.
Ha.
Hahahahaha.
Yeah no. No one ever got fired for going with Microsoft. It’s costly to migrate, and you’d get fired for a 20 minute outage.
No one got ever fired yet. If this is a serious slop issue, this can take weeks, even for someone with a massive developer base.
Mind that “free” doesn’t quite exists here; companies would need to administrer those (not so offline) solutions. And it’s unlikely that all small business will suddently hire IT guys for that. So what’s the alternative? Back to small unmaintained servers under the office desk configured by the owner’s cousin and never maintained? In these times it’s going to be a shit-show given how more intense vulnerabilities or miss configurations are exploited… From my point of vue there’s no good solution here.
I still don’t know what is the problem for small bisunesses to simply use offline locally installed office software, and why everything must be on the cloud. They often have a single person working on each document anyway
Well the top affected service was mail so hardly an offline service ;)
Oh, I thought it was the entire 365 suite…
I’m not quite sure how that was effectively affected ; we still have hard clients for those at work and they were still working. Minus Visio for which, thanks costs restrictions, we have only in the online version and that was ded. So we’re Copilot, power apps, forms…
Yet for some ungodly reason, teams still works. Fucking microsoft, can’t even fuck up correctly…
I’ve been sick most of the week and was surprised to see my missed email log was only 451 emails.
Then the number didn’t go up.
I’m in for some hurt when it comes back.
Speak for yourself, I have only been able to access teams from my phone all day and it’s been great honestly 😂
You are today’s lucky winner! I’m so jealous. They pivoted to trying to do everything over teams and… well, that ended predictably poorly. I just dipped lol, networks so hosed nobody noticed.
Teams costs extra, so it’s on a different system.
Teams is not impacted unfortunately.
“No, Teams isn’t affected by this outage. It’s… just always like that.”
I sent two messages, one of which I realized later had disappeared and the recipient never received, so something definitely wasn’t working for me.
We’re having issues with Teams with any type of scheduled meeting. Authentication is also really unreliable. Direct P2P calls work fine so far.
It says “potentially impacted” on the Microsoft status page. Might be that it’s not 100% of users.
Teams is so bad that it’s genuinely hard to tell if it’s affected or not.
Might be that it has the potential to be impacted but isn’t for anyone.
“Do we know what’s going on and what’s impacted?”
“No.”
"Tell them we are ‘investigating’ and that everything 'may be impacted,. "
It’s partially impacted. Among other things, I can’t see anyone’s online status.
my theory is that the parts of teams that were made by the estonians in 2003 still function while everything around it is a horrifying house of vibe-coded cards
Good. I’m busy. Don’t message me.
I acted like it was to get out of some meetings. No one questioned it.
This is just standard operation for them.
well if teams was down i wouldn’t have gotten the good news that copilot was down so
I couldn’t add accounts to channels all day. Annoying to have these little tasks I can’t check off.
It’s still down. 9 hours later. Don’t worry. It’s only everything.
Edited again: It’s STILL down, 24 hours later- only the list of services that are fucked got LONGER.
GTFO of the cloud, people.
I didn’t think we would be having issues going into day 2.
Here is where status is being updated by Microsoft:
Well they tried to ask copilot to fix the outage, but nobody could access it today, and there’s noone left at Microsoft that knows how anything works
time to break this company up.
no single company’s fuckup should take out a giant swath of the global economy.
this is insanity.
This shit keeps happening and it will continue to happen because buisness majors love their monoculture.
You’ll never get fired for going with IBM.
I mean, RHEL is it’s own kind of obnoxious.
Crowd strike
Too much centralzation of email etc. is not healthy.
Yes, but users also should not just put all their eggs in the same basket: diversify and make them work hard to spy on you :D
They probably pushed AI slop code into production, so no one knows what broke.
sooner or later, theres going to be an outage in their infrastructure or sloperating system that takes days or weeks to fix, because they have completely lost grasp of their codebase. this is the real existential risk
We might already be there.
We crossed that line years ago. Windows development has just been layers of paint for years. Exchange has been on life support even though it underpins 365. The only Office updates have been style and icons (ok, and integration with OneDrive, but they still haven’t implemented it for PowerPoint, shared editing still only works with word and excel). OneDrive is just SharePoint with a client app. Teams is also just SharePoint.
There are no software engineers at Microsoft any more.
Its okay though, think of the money saved from not employing someone who knows what to do!
Maybe that is exactly what is happening right now.
It’s already happened, Halloween 2025ish? Front door was fully down for hours, and when it came back up people weren’t allowed to make changes, and when people were allowed to, they had a 45 minute delay before they could take effect. Even now it takes awhile for the changes to go live.
Game developer Jonathan Blow gave a great talk with a dramatic title in 2019 before the slopocalypse in which he gripes about buggy software and the ever increasing complexity and how it causes knowledge loss. It has aged. I’m sure the same talk today would be quite a bit different. It’s still relevant.
Could even be this one based on how it’s going
so far so good 💯
