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Feels like the old Bill Gates will send you money chain email.
"Hello everybody,
My name is Bill Gates.
I have just written up an e-mail tracing program that traces everyone to whom this message is forwarded. I am experimenting with this and I need your help. Forward this to everyone you know and if it reaches 1000 people everyone on the list will receive $1,000 at my expense.
Enjoy.
Your friend,
Bill Gates".
But Microsoft is framing all of this as "Service Degradation" on their status page, not an outage. I don't know whether the wording changes things here.
They're not lying. It IS service degradation. It degraded to zero, but degraded nonetheless, its not an out(r)age!
With the amount of press they are getting if they start denying people the news will spread fast and ms prob doesn't want that.
May as well give a service credit of $13 or $20 per e3 or e5 license. It will be literally pennies on the $92 billion they made last quarter.
they won't. they'll handle this as badly as it's possible to handle this.
I assume my university would know this, right? I have been down over 16 hours
lol why the fuck would they know this?
Probably. Would be worth passing a message to your IT desk to be sure.
Assuming Outlook is working :P