Amazing how we built a world where hospitals, police departments and governments all depend on one company’s email servers, then call it resilience. Microsoft 365 goes down and suddenly the most reliable communication protocol is a piece of paper taped to a door. Maybe redundancy deserves a bigger budget than Copilot.
Reminder - the “cloud” is not some magical place where everything is preserved. It’s simply someone else’s computer. They might be very large and robust, backup everything, and have lots of redundancy to stay viable. Or not.
I think, this is especially relevant in Europe. The open source / European tech services could be used as a backup at least. It’s very shortsighted to rely just on one service provider. Such service disruptions like the recent one make one wonder about when Europe finally gets a wake up call and we truly look at how we can build own tech properly.
I think we need a solid Active Directory alternative that could be used somehow as a drop in replacement. And open source of course.
Once a business is not dependant of AD they can change other part to non Microsoft software.
Japanese stock traders switched to their redundant system which is fax.
Seems like a pretty big single point of failure for running basic society.
Racing to restore
I love that they’re not using their own LLM, and that it’s probably accurate.
Copilot was down too.
Oops! You forgot to tell it not to hallucinate.
Try again!
wonder how much this has to do with corporate encouraged vibe coding
Or firing workers
When you fire 60,000 staff…
TOO MANY universities also depend on outlook for all its needs.
Here in Québec its an absolute shame. Every college and university is 100% hooked on MS. To the point where students are obligated to have a cell phone and install MS authentificator. I am the most hated teacher by the tech people when I come around with my Linux laptop, graphene phone and all my FOSS softwares. Meanwhile, when everyone was crying this week, I had all my files and services available on my Nextcloud instance.
Downside of having monopolies.
