Microsoft 365 Office; Azure Platform Went Down for Over 24 Hours.
Microsoft blamed the outage on an “overheating issue” and lack of staff to deal with it and failed automation, after firing tens of thousands of people this year and being on a hiring freeze in most departments.
Strangely, LibreOffice users with local office software were unaffected by the Microsoft Clown Office outage.
IBM Red Hat officials, who just weeks ago said they were deleting LibreOffice because “everyone should use MS Office on the Cloud anyway” were unavailable for comment.
At least, I presume they were, after roasting their mailing lists to snuff out stories about all the orphaned packages in Fedora.
Microsoft has had issues with outages recently, as earlier this summer its services of Azure, Outlook and OneDrive were affected due to a denial-of-service attack from a Russian-associated group. Azure also found itself in a concerning situation a couple of months ago in Western Europe, as a storm in the Netherlands caused a fibre connection between two of Microsoft’s data centres to be damaged.
-IBTimesUK
Very robust. Not being able to even edit a small document file because Microsoft’s server has collapsed. Wave of the future.
Facing the same problem as Microsoft in Sydney, due to likely sharing a data centre, was computer technology company, Oracle, and its cloud software subsidiary, NetSuite. Also, the Bank of Queensland and Australian airline, Jetstar, experienced issues as customers were unable to access necessary functions.
-IBTimesUK
It’s amazing how many people can’t get their work done because Microsoft can’t run a reliable service.
And this not just a recent thing, oh no. When I was working with an attorney in Chicago on an important case, she kept losing my emails because she was using Microsoft 365 and like, the attachments were getting lost.
I ended up having to put them on a Google Drive (I know.) and taking the permissions off the file (I know.) and then deleting the files when she was done grabbing a copy from the link.
“Post-COVID” business practices have caused people to lose their damn minds and not be able to deal with even small tasks with their own software and hosting.
E-mail? Well, I guess that’s forgivable, except that it’s important and she handed it to Microsoft. Document editing? Oh my God….
Mind you that a decade or so ago, the same Microsoft made fun of Chromebooks for “not being able to have a real office suite” and “being a brick when there was no network connection”.
Now that’s pretty much how you have to use Microsoft Office, even though Chromebooks can run any Linux application through Debian, including LibreOffice.
Also, it’s somewhat odd that a company that’s been on a tear firing everyone, including most people working on Edge and Bing, which nobody really uses anyway, continues to be called a “tech giant”. Like several times in one article.
Do you think they’re compensating for something? ⬆