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Microsoft outage: Microsoft 365, Teams, Outlook, Copilot all impacted (mashable.com)
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[–] Varpeggio@lemmy.zip 46 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (4 children)

Yep, we lost outlook functionality. I’m curious to see what the cause of this is… a nationwide outage affecting the entire world’s enterprise is no small hiccup.

[–] cantstopthesignal@sh.itjust.works 41 points 1 day ago* (last edited 23 hours ago)

Hmmm, I'm going with they laid off a quarter of their work force and replaced them with vibe coding.

[–] Nobody@anarchist.nexus 21 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

It’s going to turn out to be shitty AI code causing the crash. It’s all part of a slow rolling train crash, and this still is the beginning.

[–] CH3DD4R_G0BL1N@sh.itjust.works 12 points 20 hours ago

We’d only ever know that from a leak. No way they admit it.

[–] gdbjr@piefed.social 26 points 1 day ago (3 children)

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.

They followed this one up to say the automated health checks were causing the servers to go unavailable.

[–] OneOfManyPerfectCats@sh.itjust.works 6 points 18 hours ago* (last edited 18 hours ago) (1 children)

Did someone DDOS them via health checks?!

[–] wookiepedia@lemmy.world 3 points 5 hours ago

I have been 'someone' before, when a vendor changed the interval from being in seconds to milliseconds and I failed to read the patch notes before adding new targets because "I know what I'm doing."

[–] krashmo@lemmy.world 11 points 21 hours ago (2 children)

Are you OK? Are you OK? Are you OK?

I'm going to ask you so many times that you stop being OK. AI is overly attached girlfriend.

[–] jj4211@lemmy.world 7 points 19 hours ago

Annie are you ok?

[–] thanksforallthefish@literature.cafe 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Seems to be ok in the UK at the moment

[–] dou9m@lemmy.ca 7 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Microsoft probably treats y’all okay because Ireland lets them avoid paying the taxes they deserve to pay the American government, lol.