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.
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
Nine fives is still better than a coin flip.
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.
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.
load balancers are just turned into total load takers.
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.
“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
[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?
It’s the AI preparing to issue its demands
No idea. But i didn’t know how hard it is to work when no one can check emails and calendars lol.
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?
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.
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.
At least emails retry I guess
It’s only downtime if you take 24h+ to fix it, otherwise it’s just slow e-mails.
Lol … this is how the AI takeover starts
First we get inconvenienced by having a few things shut down in our office, then we start seeing pieces of the internet fall apart … once we start seeing memes being made about it all … the nuclear weapons have already launched and we only have about 40 minutes before we realize that the end has already started.
Some of us will just see the bright white flash and shock wave.
Most of us will start getting mad because the internet isn’t working any more, no TV, no radio and we won’t know about the apocalypse until we step outside and start asking other confused people about what happened.
Your email is down for the day.
Calm down.
The best part is my works email is down for the day. Mine is fine.
Makes me very happy.
Right?!
I missed a meeting? How would I know! Perfect!
Thats what they said when we told everyone they were recording us at all times. Then Snowden came out.
If you dont think this is just the beginning your heads in the sand. Its gonna get BAD.
Yep! Everything truly sucks now.
Some of us will just see the bright white flash
And I’ll be running directly towards it.
My inbox has never been so quiet.
