I utterly lothe that this is true but I have one solid argument for needing centerlization of email. It is spam filtering. Both incoming and not getting filtered by others outgoing.

I'm sure it is solvable through other means but I can assure you working in IT myself that is isn't an easy solve which is why this has won out in practice.

Uh, what about all the money Microsoft has now to invest in making their products better? Wait....

I'm wondering if it might be a hack because there's been some weird phishing attacks going along with it. Could also just bad actors taking advantage of the chaos.

I'm just mad these big outages always happen during American work hours. Come on, I want to sit and twiddle my thumbs in Europe too.

This was my first thought upon hearing this news. For some companies, not having Teams and Outlook is basically PTO.

Not a damn thing I can do but post an advisement

A paper one, on the office bulletin board, because Outlook is also down, lol.

Retired former IT guy here. I'm enjoying watching the tech world burn while wrapped in a blanket on my couch, sipping hot chocolate. ☕

I feel bad for my fellow IT guys who have to deal with it, but it's so nice being removed from it all now.

It would be a dramatic improvement in service.

it was out for somebody

I was sooooo hopeful when I saw it in the list of affected services, buuuuuuuut noooooooooooo

More info: Potentially impacted services include:

- Exchange Online

- Microsoft Teams

- SharePoint Online

- Microsoft Copilot 365

- Microsoft Defender XDR

- Microsoft Planner

- Microsoft To Do

- Microsoft Intune

- Microsoft Defender for Office 365

- Microsoft Purview: Multiple Purview services including Authorization, Auto Labelling, Data Loss Prevention (DLP), Communication Compliance, and Data Classification are impacted.

- Power BI: All users may intermittently be unable to export reports with MIP sensitivity labels to PDF in Power BI.

- Microsoft 365 Apps Admin Center: Multiple services including Cloud Update, Cloud Policy, and Inventory.

Everytime I refresh this page, there's a new service impacted.

https://status.cloud.microsoft/

Oh snaps