Microsoft 365 outage continues as fixes stall, Outlook and Teams disrupted
Microsoft outage blamed on hacker; hacker denies claim, says he's just a normal man, an innocent man
stanmanley.bsky.social39This post is what the internet has been building up to for the last 35 years. We can shut it down now .
bdonnelly27They’ve captured his accomplice apparently. He was shouting about what the charge was… something about what’s wrong with letting the world’s office workers have the opportunity to have some sort of succulent meal…
Pugwash.4Microsoft outage blamed on hacker; hacker denies claim, says he's just a normal man, an innocent man.
dragon7380.bsky.social3My cat jumped on my computer desk and walk across my keyboard. All of a sudden I was taken to a website that I have never seen before and I did not want to go to again...I got off it VERY QUICK
Michael Gould3His Chinese girlfriend had no comment
Estranged Rach2We need an alt text, please.
RetrogamerDaz15This made me laugh out loud 😆
Anjin Anhut / available for freelance6my man (innocent man) T Dog, getting blamed for so much stuff. Cockers!
Ryan and his Riverbrook Lake Farms Heritage Turkey4Microsoft outage blamed on hacker; hacker denies claim, says he's just a gigolo
Rob2Chef’s kiss of the day thread
Seeing a lot of people blaming vibe coding for the Microsoft outage and I can't emphasize enough that there was no halcyon edenic pre-AI period where Microsoft products worked well
mtsw885Windows XP is one of the most beloved pieces of software of all time because it was the only version of windows across like 25 years that wouldn't constantly crash your computer
Alex Turnbull176great moments in human spaceflight, brought to you by microsoft
DH79Was there a time that they had what seems to be a worldwide 12-hour outage? Because this seems new
Boxo McFoxo64This isn't about the user-facing product "working well", though. This is about them not being able to fix their backend because they don't understand their own codebase anymore. A completely different problem, in fact.
Bad Tölz43Yes, but MS has now spent most of the last 5 years deliberately deprecating products that did not push you to toward keeping YOUR data on THEIR computers. So now when they screw the pooch, hospitals, police forces, whole governments, etc. are all instantly crippled. Makes on-prem’s case, innit?
Jason Blue Tsunami Darr23Ah the joys of trying to dial in the right expanded memory settings on MS-DOS.
Kathryn Tewson325I worked at Microsoft in the late nineties and the unofficial slogan of the Exchange Server team was “Quality is job 1.1”
Adrienne56There have always been problems with MS software, but things have gotten a LOT worse in the last couple years. They have always had spaghetti mess code but they also used to have a solid core of really phenomenal engineers and those folks are mostly all gone now.
poeta mercator 🚱🌉46Look I mean this is true but also outlook being down for 12 hours is insane
Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ40vibe coding does make things worse *and* Microsoft is bin juice, but to say Windows 98 is as bad as current Windows for desktop users is also very wrong to be fair
Boxo McFoxo32Oh look, another one of mtsw's weird AI apologia takes. Bad consumer product design is not the same thing as flailing about and failing to fix an outage for 12+ hours because you don't understand the code running on your own servers anymore.
รℓσαɳε ℓყรɓεƭɦ23i don't actually think this is true. this is based on reputation more than reality.
it's charloh! (it/its)15"microsoft works" has literally been used as an example of an oxymoron since like 1988
FalKoopa 🌈14Onedrive in desktop was dogshit long before AI came along lol I don't understand how.
Thom, Oboe Fan8Yeah my Windows 98 box needing a reboot every so often is basically the same as companies across the world unable to properly function for a whole day. Very smart observation.
HuggyBastard 🖤8Microsoft has always sucked, but there is a correlation between them embracing vibe coding and a spike in exploits, vulnerabilities, extremely stupid bugs even by Microsoft's standards and lengthier outages. They're blaming vibe coding because that's what is causing this
This Microsoft outage is amazing. Businessmen gambolling through fields, tech executives meeting their children for the first time; I saw a data centre being repurposed by cute woodland creatures and turned into a cake stall
JazzComposer36Does Microsoft have thousands of lines of defective AI generated code that no human understands? You mean proper syntax does not guarantee a functional system? Did Microsoft layoff experienced engineers so the only thing the people left can do is prompt "please debug problem"?
Jim 🤘28Nature is healing. I just watched a VP of Sales try to 'circle back' with a family of deer, while a project manager tried to organize a flock of geese into a two-week sprint.
Nick22Legit a guy came into my work today with his kid to buy something and was like, 'I can't do my job so they just sent me home.' and he looked a little stunned. Like, realising his entire ability to work depends on Microsoft working first.
Ed Granter13Attack modems burning off the shoulder of Orion
SamRx7Wishing all American workers a quiet Friday 13, like we’ve just had here in Aust Enjoy
Balrog Needs Hug72:12 AM Saturday ET is the point in which Microsoft will hit the 95% threshold for their SLA and trigger a 100% service credit globally. Thus ends Microsoft.
Shannon Vallor1047Jokes aside, I am worried by the duration of this outage, and its impact on things like hospitals, GPs, and safety critical services. They won’t admit this was AI/vibe coding even if it was, but whatever the cause, maybe we shouldn’t rest the entire world’s operations on the shoulders of 2 companies
Sarah Kay17This is the life we were meant to be living. You hop in fields, not on a call
Dr GangGang2Woodland creatures and cake stalls for everyone! Happy Friday! #microsoft
It is moments like this that you realise big digital platforms (particularly Microsoft, Meta etc) are critical infrastructure. They aren’t regulated with the same scrutiny that aviation, telecommunications, energy etc receive though. www.theguardian.com/technology/l...
Marshall Abrams6Yes. But Microsoft's mail services are critical infrastructure because they have so much market share. Not exactly a monopoly, but something like that, and that's the problem. Email was designed to work without requiring dominating organizations. MS provides more than simple email, but still.
Katemiya5Imagine an outage this long with AWS. We'd realize how much of the Internet is run by Amazon. A LOT. Not a lot has been said in the US about the grocery refrigeration system attacks across Europe either. Not like we have a major food holiday any time soon.
Paul Schöppach 🏳️🌈 he/him5No META is not critical infrastructure and neither is Microsoft. That is absurd on its face. You can run your entire business and personal affairs on your own hardware using freeware software and never need either of these companies ever again.
GAK [MBA/MA] 🇦🇺🇺🇸3Have they tried unplugging it and then plugging it back in?
Robodobdob2I’d add the big AI providers to that list. Many developer teams are totally dependent on their ability to connect to OpenAI or Anthropic nowadays.
Justin Timbercake, MA, MPS2United States v. Microsoft determined that Microsoft engaged in deliberate monopolistic practices in 1998. Imagine if our government had actually done the right thing and broken up the company.
Oh look, centralised delivery of services and communication is vulnerable to a single outage bringing down all nodes. That’s why the whole FUCKING internet was designed to be decentralised & redundant BY DESIGN!!! 🤦🏽🤦🏽🤦🏽 #nzpol, #uspol
Christina Hood9& doubly amusing timing given Sam Altman just suggested we should all give up our laptops in favour of centralised processing.
David Thompson6Good point, well made. Over reliance on cloud based online services, then making them more reliant on AI whilst getting rid of large numbers of humans that are busily correcting AI code at a time when AI is being used to initiate cyber attacks turns out to be a dumb thing to do. Tech Bros Hubris.
Michael Creel5My university rushed out a Windows update on Thursday, several hours before this crash hit. I suppose that the two events are related. No word from Uni admin so far, I guess that the whole IT part of the Uni is at a dead halt. I'm running Debian, and get to watch from the sidelines. 🙄🤨
Nom DePlume2Designed maybe, but not regulated. It has been redesigned to control us.
“Microsoft says its attempts to fix the issue are not ‘taking as expected’ — it had said earlier its team is ‘seeing positive results.’”
mike taddow58to the brave microsoft engineers working very hard to fix this issue: you’re doing great but value your work-life balance. take your time (like, keep testing fixes until 5:30pm et on friday)
Silverman on Security38Have they tried asking copilot for help? I hear that AI is good for this kind of thing. 🤷♂️
Bryan Toporek27When it comes out that this outage was caused by AI spaghetti code >>>>>
The Dax Symbiont 🏴🏳️⚧️🌲🇵🇸25Everyone with half a brain said that vibe coding was going to create code that was broken in ways that the people *fundamentally can’t understand* because they *didn’t design the code that’s broken* and instead allowed a sort of magic 8 ball made of matrix multiplication to do it lmfao
Harry Pavlidis23Looks like you're trying to recover from a global outage. Would you like help?
the postes17ok im sorry but who is out there seeking negative results. "yeah we're really hoping this goes poorly and something bad happens"
Ian17I'm wishing all my gainfully employed friends a merry 'I hope your Outlook is busted and you have to have a day off.'
Kim Acuff Steiner17It's going how I expected, lolol
[LVL 36]Alsvid Wotansdottir🧿7Close enough, welcome back Windows Millennium Edition
EC Hamilton (Siobhan O'Leary)7Press releases when you definitely know what you're doing
If it turns out than an AI agent caused the Microsoft outage governments should all agree that the entire AI industry needs to be shut down immediately
Before today's Microsoft outage, top officials and agencies warned about our reliance on big tech. Some even mentioned Microsoft, like Home Affairs' Hamish Hansford who told the InnovationAus podcast the "disproportionate impact" of an outage shows why we need closer ties. www.abc.net.au/news/...
End Of The World News ✊ 🇺🇦 🇵🇸2The touble is instead of using this as a reason to stop relying on big tech, they will use this as an excuse for more data centers and prioritising 'critical' tech infrastructure over local populations or the environment. The too big to fail strategy.
Daniel O'Connor2Pretty depressing that not even ASIO can self host! Obviously Microsoft make that harder/pricier than it needs to be, maybe someone should address that
The Microsoft outage is either Copilot waking up and getting ready to Skynet us all OR Incompetent company with long history of incompetence incompetently doing incompetent things with incompetent technology it incompetently shoves into everyone's faces. Hard to tell, really.
Jall Barret1It's slightly funny to me because Microsoft has like ... at least one of these per year and has had them for far longer than LLMs have been a thing. On the other hand, the other gigantic global Microsoft outages seemed to have their comms written by humans who understood ... things.
carlvo.bsky.social1I disagree. Microsoft has very competently shoved stuff into our faces for decades. The rest of your post, yeah.....
Microsoft Outlook is still down and for some reason, their backup carrier pigeon program is down too! We're not sure why, but the Catnadian government continues to investigate. 😼🇨🇦
Unicornhorn1112Send in the Canadian Goose.
JazzComposer2Microsoft Outlook Outage Cause and Effect? Human code vs AI code. "Among the most affected by these layoffs were engineers...told...to use OpenAI-powered systems to generate up to 50 per cent of their code. Weeks later, many from that same team were let go..." www.wionews.com/technology/b...
RD-B22Pro tip: Ravens. And African swallows for short-range, high-speed deliveries.
Liora Vienne McKenzie 🇨🇦🇺🇦2Nico, stop molesting the pigeon! OMG.