If you think this will finally bring about a reckoning, let me point out that Microsoft’s stock price is up on the day.
That’s the thing from the customer IT perspective. When your Microsoft-administered systems go down at the same time as the rest of the world, nobody blames the CTO or any of the sysadmins. The global outage becomes an acknowledgement that it’s not their fault, so nobody in the company actually gets blamed, and nobody gives them a hard time.
It might not result in more uptime, but it does mean that any downtime doesn’t get pinned on them.
I think it goes even further than that. The thinking is that if the professionals at Microsoft can’t even figure this out, how are our in-house sysadmins going to keep a system on line, or deal with it when something bad happens? The possibility of incompetence at Microsoft simply never enters consideration.
The answer has been staring us in the face and laughing at us.
It’s on-prem.
They’re in the middle of massive fraud to price us out of doing so.
All of these calls are being made from inside the house.
The answer is, you will own nothing, and fuck you wait a little bit until it’s profitable for us to make more profit.
We either burn them down or they burn us down. We have a lot of means we haven’t tried yet. Organize. No matter the next option, the first step is organize.
Well, right. Because it proved to investors how much of the world uses Microsoft’s products.
Whether or not it is a good product is of no relevance.
I’m okay with LibreOffice.
Same- actually I’ve been okay with LibreOffice since about 2016 when I tossed Microsoft out of my life.
Which is fine if you don’t need Excel. Business, however, does.
You are not incorrect about this. However, every time I see an abomination with macros and external calls made in excel I want to shoot the head department for such heresy (yes, usually they are between departments and they call this shit “apps”. Just fucking kill me)
I understand buying the service from a reliable vendor, but if you’re a gigantic organisation it seems insane to have it running on the same infrastructure as all their other clients.
Why set it up so if you break something you break the whole world?
Its like bank holidays.
If everything stops, nobody is doing business
I’m off this week, but we just switched from Cisco Jabber to MS Teams this year. My team wanted to go to WebEx but the execs told us no. I’m interested to see what the fallout was when I get back on Monday
teams was mostly up the entire time I think? All I lost was the org chart and the ability to send meetings
Yeah, the calendar bits use exchange and those were broken.
I had the main Teams window full-on lock up a few times, but it always recovered.
I suspect IT will be reviewing the incident to figure out a non-MS disaster recovery plan though.
We’re moving from Cisco to Vonage, and oh boy does it suck. The webpage was eating every ounce of RAM it could get its hands on. They fixed the memory leak after a week of terrible performance so it was at least usable, but it’s a straight downgrade. There was enough pushback that they stopped the rollout, but they’re planning on bringing it back after the holidays. Can’t wait.
Isn’t Vonage that cheap 9.99 a month VoIP plan?
If it wasn’t cheap I don’t think the bosses would be trying so hard to make it work. I work a help desk so I’m not privy to the actual cost.
I guess there’s now a market for backup email servers for medium to large corporations. I wonder how much automation broke.
Microsoft security products including Microsoft Defender and Intune have been impacted by the outage
Who decided that was a good idea. The last time I used a windows antivirus it downloaded virus definitions and then scanned using those definitions, if it wasn’t able to connect to the web it was non-issue. When did that change.
It’s such a strange thing to witness computing getting more and more personal and then seeing it all taken away again.
I’ve been yelling about this for a long time and nobody listens. At least they might, now.
You overestimate people. The general public will cry and bitch and moan, but the minute they can access things again, they immediately forget and move on.
I wish I was joking.
