My school uses it as their email and I had to make my class online only for today because of personal reasons. Could I reach my students? Nope!
But, I did mention it during class on Tuesday and also last week, so people who remembered joined. A cool student also let confused people know in person since she was around. I still made it optional and just gave personalized feedback to students who stuck around.
It’s wasn’t as bad as when Canvas dropped cause of AWS outage during finals week. That was not fun.
Are we already at the point where they’ve fired so many engineers to be taken over by AI that they can’t fix it by themselves anymore?
Fuck Microsoft
I only have email from before 1pm and it’s 723pm right now.
My work outlook won’t even start. It’s just sitting on the splash screen for 45 minutes now
I’m really glad Microsoft did all that work turning Outlook into a live service web wrapper that can’t function offline because now when they do something stupid I basically get the day off.
Keep fucking up Microsoft.
Very true. Today was a very focused coding day.
Loved it
What my agency has been told.
Latest as of 2026-11-12 2:18:39 PM (EST)
Status: Investigating
We’ve determined that the elevated load isn’t driven by an overall increase in traffic, but by a large number of servers being unexpectedly unavailable, which is shifting load onto the remaining infrastructure. We’re investigating what’s causing these servers to become unavailable while we work to safely return them to service.Maybe they should try asking copilot why all those serves are unavailable.
“You’re absolutely right, turning those servers off as a cost-cutting effort was a mistake, and has caused more problems than it has solved. I’m still learning, so I appreciate your understanding and patience 🙏”
Is it fair to assume that any software failures moving forward are caused by vibecoding? 😅
I would like to think so
Copilot shit itself as well
Something something paired core routers went down during audit tasks in AMER and EMEA knocking 2 AZs offline at the same time. Automation did what automation do and eff it all up. Now it takes all hands on deck to untangle it.
The internal messaging is nuts.
Copilot is down too :-D
If it’s down for another 6months maybe I’ll notice.
Is Clippy alright? Is he safe?
I don’t think anyone has heard from Clippy. I’m really worried right now.
He’s seen some shit. Literally.
No, that’s normal.
load balancers are just turned into total load takers.
“Hey Cortana, why are we so bad at this?”
Maybe it’s time to impose restrictions on spam emails? I gave up deleting stuff a long time ago. Maybe less servers will be needed.
BGP? It’s probably BGP.
Get rekt. Vibe code this, you layoff fucking happy prrrrrricks
#badvibes
#sendvibes
I can’t. Outlook is down.
sends Teams invite
Nine fives is still better than a coin flip.
[caused by a] large number of servers being unexpectedly unavailable
This is basically just the definition of what an outage is. No shit, Sherlock.
Microslop Outlook at work keeps blinking in the calendar view, and feels more unstable after each update.
I’m sure firing 25% of their workforce will help…
Have they tried throwing more vibe-codes slop at the problem? Or laying off all the workers…?
Its way more than Microsoft. Someone fucked up again lol.
Is it DNS? Is DNS again, isn’t it?
No idea. But i didn’t know how hard it is to work when no one can check emails and calendars lol.
It’s the AI preparing to issue its demands
What is affected other than Microsoft?
Microsoft, Amazon, X, Reddit, Meta, Salesforce, several AI platforms, gaming platforms, some ISPs… Everyone’s having a rough go of it today.
Zoom, Starlink, Google, Service Now, AWS, AT&T to name a few.
My bosses sent out an email informing people of the outage through Outlook… [facepalm]
Also, placing 5$ on it being a BGP issue.
Our IT is hamstrung so HR sent a text blast about the outage. Good thinking, hilarious failure.
Everbridge. Gotta diversify.
Another vote for everbridge it serves us well.
What’s it called now? Microsoft Copilot 365 Outlook?
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I love how evergreen that one has been
Wow that is OLD and I’ve never seen it. Thanks
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Hoping teams goes down too.
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You should be able to both change it and turn it off everywhere lol, unless for some godforsaken reason they even can disable those options via GP
Our company relies pretty heavily on teams, apparently. Someone (regional operations director) asked me if I saw their teams message. I told him I exit out as soon as it opens and have never used it in 4 years. Email me or call me like an adult.
That’s insane to me.
I don’t want phone calls, and I certainly don’t really care for emails, way over used.
As a person that got used to being online with IRC and Usenet, I gotta say Teams (as a pain in the ass as it is) is the best way to communicate (if that is the chat type tool you have).
You don’t have to respond right away, you have the information collected in chat channels, you can bring in others into the chat.
But most importantly: it is the only one that makes sense with asynchronous remote work.
A phone call? I tell people I do not have a phone anymore, there is no number to call. Why would you want interruption?
I dont like calls either. I have to send back documents, email is 99% of the comms i use. Teams worked in a previous role that was constant group work on a single thing.
I have to send back documents,
You guys still passing around documents? I try and put a stop to that as soon as I see it.
I buy and sell things, so yes. Constantly.
Except, also no calls. They’re horribly jarring and often interrupt the workflow.
Yeah, I shouldnt have included calls. I hate calls
In settings, I set my notify sound to one called “vibe”. Seriously saved my sanity.
What about https://m.youtube.com/shorts/8AzdptjcJmY
It did for a bit here
We’re learning about cloud services SO MUCH today.
