Not just nationwide. It’s down in the UK too, and probably other countries.
At my employer, this is the third big outage this year involving Micosoft: Entra (the abortion formerly known as Active Directory), GitHub, and now Outlook.
With other SAAS, we’ve had a couple smallish AWS glitches and that’s about all.
Rather amusingly, I was asked for comments on use of MS for SSO when we were doing the procurement, and I said at the time that it was a very bad idea. But the humanities majors in suits had their way and here we are in the shit.
I’d rather have been listened to the first time than getting to tell them “told you so.”
More people should be concerned about how much digital infrastructure goes through so few companies…
Not just Microsoft 365, its like half the fucking internet lol.
Somehow when all the vibe coded nonsense wrecks everyone’s services, somehow our shoestring little Fediverse servers remain. Of course, we’ll use that newfound power to gloat and post about soapy beans in jeans, lol.
I will maintain that is the true purpose of the internet.
That and porn of course.
Don’t forget about cats and doggos!
And superb owls.
My geocities site isn’t responding!
Are a few dominant American owned SAAS providers really the resilient system we want to tackle an uncertain future?
Fragility and dependency are not geopolitical virtues.
Nobody with a working brain wants to depend on the few US SAAS providers.
But they also provide enough brain-rot and corruption as a service. And so the majority of people has actual issues with using their brains and also constantly finds paid stooges telling them that there is really no problem.
*worldwide
Which nation? Lichtenstein?
The Principality of Sealand?
Grand Fenwick
Well, less mails from Windows users. I see no downside with that.
Nice <3
