Microsoft Confirms Windows 11 Security Update Failures, Rolls Out Automatic Fix

Microsoft confirms Windows 11 security update failures affecting some PCs and announces an automatic fix. Here's what aff

https://www.freezenet.ca/microsoft-confirms-windows-11-security-update-failures-rolls-out-automatic-fix/

#News #Security #Technology #Cybersecurity #KB5132061 #Microsoft #MicrosoftSecurityUpdates #SoftwareUpdates #Windows11 #Windows11SecurityUpdate #WindowsUpdate #WindowsUpdateErrors

So I decided to check my #Outlook to see if #Microsoft's services were back up and running for me, and apparently at some point they started disguising ads as emails. I saw an "email" from them asking to upgrade my account, so I clicked it with the intent of just deleting it, but instead it opened this larger ad asking me to choose a tier I would like to upgrade to. After closing it I noticed the tiny word "Ad" on the email.

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A screenshot of an Outlook ad. It says, "Sta connected with Microsoft 365" and lists several different paid plans they want me to choose from.

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A screenshot of the "email" in question, with a tiny "Ad" label on the right end of it.

#BOLO for an active #phishing campaign that is taking advantage of the massive #Microsoft #outage earlier this week. Don't take the bait! Microsoft is NOT holding your messages!

Stay #vigilant!

#BeCyberSafe #StayCyberSecure

#deutschland
#Cloud: Serverausfälle stören #Outlook und #microsoft365 #microsoft

Keine Ausfälle bei uns oder unseren Kunden, da kein #microsoft oder sonstige #bigtech Abhängigkeiten. #Linux, schlanke, sichere Architektur, regelmäßig und zeitnah gepacht. Kooperation mit gleichgesinnten Menschen (@JulianOliver @thomasfricke ). Fertig ist die Laube.

Wer Interesse an sowas hat: https://collective-zero.de -> Beratungsgespräch buchen.

https://www.golem.de/news/cloud-serverausfaelle-stoeren-outlook-und-microsoft-365-2611-215165.html

"confier toute son informatique à un géant ne garantit ni l’infaillibilité ni la disponibilité permanente."
Pensez ainsi à @hellomailo à @protonprivacy ou encore à @zaclys et @Tutanota

#gafam #libre #mail #microsoft

Also auf die gerade im Radio auf Bayern 1 erwähnten Anrufe vom Microsoft-Support freue ich mich schon richtig. 😁

#linux #nomicrosoft #microsoft #outlook #outlookdown #bayern1 @BR24

Guten Morgen,

meine armen Kollegen. Microsoft hat weltweit Störungen im M365 Dschungel und ich bin mir sicher, daß sie mit Tickets überhäuft werden, während ich frei habe.

Gestern hier einen englischen Beitrag gelesen:
Wie oft lassen sich Unternehmen von 'Microsoft noch ficken, bis sie die Mail wieder On-Pemise betreiben oder sich komplett von MS abkoppeln?

Das frage ich mich auch. Übrigens, der Bedarf an MS Rechenzentren steigt auch, weil in der M365 Welt jeder Hirnie meint, mit Co-Pilot PDFs bearbeiten zu müssen oder sein Gehirnkastl nicht mehr anstrengt. Die altmodische Version der KI hieß bei uns noch "Vorlage" und fand man sie unternehmensweit an einen Speicherplatz, damit alle sie nutzen konnten. Manche Dinge muß man nicht zweimal erfinden.

#windows #Microsoft #linux #libreoffice #digitalsouvereignty

So, widme ich mich wieder den schönen Dingen des Lebens... :-)

Schönen Freitag 🙂

I made this earlier, is this anything?

#Microsoft

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The Microsoft 365 logo, but with the number changed to 364

De storing bij Microsoft bewijst hoe afhankelijk we in Nederland zijn van dit ene bedrijf. Belangrijk om hier snel over te spreken in de Tweede Kamer, maar mijn mail deed het niet, want ook onze democratie hangt volledig aan een Amerikaanse tech-infuus. Debat aanvragen ging dus even niet. Hopelijk wordt de motie van @laurensdassen om de Tweede Kamer digitaal onafhankelijk te maken nu heel snel uitgevoerd! #microsoft Lees het hele artikel @NRC https://www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2026/11/13/de-nederlandse-afhankelijkheid-van-microsoft-is-enorm-blijkt-tijdens-een-grote-storing-a4941349

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Printscreen van het artikel in NRC waarvan de link in het bericht staat. Grote kop in zwarte letters: De Nederlandse afhankelijkheid van Microsoft is enorm, blijkt tijdens een grote storing.

Fniss. #microsoft

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Clippy utklädd till Olenna Tyrell i Game of thrones och texten. ”Tell Microsoft. I want them to know it was me”

Re: Microsoft outage

"Here, I think, is a nice, bright-line, administrable test for monopoly power. If your company has a dominant position and if it allocates its surplus capital to its investors and if that precedes a significant degradation of your products, then you have an illegal monopoly and you should be broken up."
- @pluralistic

https://pluralistic.net/2026/11/13/outlookpocalypse/

#Microsoft #Monopoly #Tech #Technology #Business #Antitrust #Law #Politics #News #US #USA #World

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Text from article: Here, I think, is a nice, bright-line, administrable test for monopoly power. If your company has a dominant position and if it allocates its surplus capital to its investors and if that precedes a significant degradation of your products, then you have an illegal monopoly and you should be broken up. We don't need to inquire as to whether you have a wicked heart that intentionally set about to create a monopoly, nor do we have to argue endlessly about how many angels can dance on the head of your market definition. If you think you are so powerful that you can fuck up your products and not suffer as a result then you are too big to care, and that is simply too big. This isn't the only fix we need to antitrust law, but it is a fix that would specifically let us target Big Tech. Microsoft is a living, breathing (limping, gasping) repudiation of the thesis that monopolies are efficient and if we only let them amass endless market share and profits, they will use their "economies of scale" to deliver superior products. It's not that economies of scale don't exist, but for companies to take advantage of these economies of scale, they have to be motivated to expend their capital to do so. The more powerful a company is, the less inclined it will be to apportion capital to workers, suppliers and consumers, and the more it will cheat us all to enrich its shareholders.

@jwildeboer the thing is, this outage has shown that Outlook / Exchange / Teams AREN'T e-mail and messaging - they're walled-garden 'MS Communication Apps' - if they weren't, it would still work when one part goes down. Remember when you could hos t your own and use SMTP? I don't think Outlook does that anymore #Microsoft #MIcrosoft365Outage

#clippy #microsoft #ladyolenatyrell

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Clippy, the microsoft paperclip dressed as Lady Olenna Tyrell from Game of Thrones saying “Tell Microsoft. I want them to know it was me."

Na? Gehört ihr auch zu denen, die momentan nicht richtig arbeiten können? #Microsoft

Wisst ihr, wer gerade keine Probleme hat? Das Land #SchleswigHolstein.

#Linux #OpenXchange #OpenSource #OpenSourceSoftware #DigitaleSouveränität

https://www.ndr.de/nachrichten/schleswig-holstein/open-source-strategie-in-sh-erst-belaechelt-jetzt-vorbild,digital-112.html

Outlook-Störung. Wieder mal.

Anhand von #Microsoft sieht man, warum eine eigene IT (Selfhost oder Hybrid-Cloud) für JEDES Unternehmen wichtig ist:

Wer alles in eine fremde Cloud legt, kann bei Ausfällen nur zuschauen.
Wer seine IT selbst in der Hand hat, arbeitet weiter.

✔ Kontrolle über Ihre Daten
✔ Ausfallsicherheit durch Redundanz
✔ Unabhängigkeit von einzelnen Anbietern

#ITInfrastruktur #Selfhosting #HybridCloud #Datenhoheit

Microsoft (publicly): "It was the hackers what done it!!"

Microsoft (internally): "We pushed a bunch of vibe-coded slop to production and no bugger understands how it was supposed to work, why it doesn't work, or how to undo it. Some of the 18,000 people we fired recently might have been able to help, but... well..."

#Microsoft

Today on #Bluesky: We finally know who’s in charge of the #Microsoft #Outage.

Thanks for clearing that up, Grantscherm. 🤣

https://bsky.app/profile/grantscheam.bsky.social/post/3n26ggq4kf7ms

#Terminator #Clippy #AIslop #LLMslop

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An LLM generated version of Clippy, the Microsoft “Assistent” in the olden days of Microsoft Office, Terminator like with one red eye, holding a gun in its hand. The background looks like an active war zone.

Panne mondiale chez Microsoft : Quels sont les pays et principaux services perturbés ce vendredi ?
https://www.20minutes.fr/high-tech/by-the-web/4262680-20261113-panne-mondiale-chez-microsoft-pays-principaux-services-perturbes-vendredi

La panne a touché 72 pays à travers les Amérique, l’Asie, l’Océanie, l’Afrique et l’Europe, impactant les services Outlook, #Teams et #Copilot en raison d’une « charge élevée » sur les infrastructures du groupe

Services de santé perturbés, publications de résultats d’entreprises retardées… : la panne mondiale affectant plusieurs logiciels de #Microsoft, dont #Outlook, a d’importantes répercussions sur la vie quotidienne de leurs utilisateurs.

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« Une charge élevée » … c'est pas comme si c'était leur <3 de métier.

Willkommen, liebe #Linux- und #OpenSource Neulinge, in der Welt der digitalen Unabhängigkeit! 👋

#microsoft #outlookdown

RE: https://mastodon.social/@Viss/117611902497658455

ooooooh i like this explanation the best
#FAA #Microsoft #Azure #l3harris

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Viss » 🌐 2026-11-14
@Viss@mastodon.social

im gonna wager a guess:
l3harris is a windows shop
their shit is in azure
like the win11 screenshot i saw yesterday, a system dependent on azure for login gets locked out cuz you cant auth against a cloud thats down

l3 rebooted something
it didnt come back up because azure

FAA outsources to l3
l3 outsources to azure
everyones horked

am i the only one wondering why they just didn't have copilot fix it?

#microsoft #linux

https://apnews.com/article/microsoft-outage-outlook-email-365-status-down-d92547a821930290db2964388016979a

I wonder if some #LLM ingested the idea that things are supposed to go wrong on #FridayThe13th.

#FAA #NWS #Microsoft

RE: https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/117610952388803770

What a relief, to read it spelled out in so many words.

Microsoft is *presumptively* negligent, *because* of the outage, and must be broken up. With their market dominance, the degradation of their products means that they’re too big to care, so they‘re too big to exist at all.

No need to analyze intent, or antitrust arcana, or any other woo-woo. This is a conclusion. If Microsoft disagrees, then all burdens of proof should lie with them.

@renewedresistance
#microsoft #antitrust

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Cory Doctorow » 🌐 2026-11-13
@pluralistic@mamot.fr

Here's the one weird trick that made it possible for monopolies to conquer the world: the antitrust bar changed the rules so that it was impossible to prove whether a company had formed an illegal monopoly, and then these rules meant that monopolies were almost never challenged, and what challenges did arise were usually unsuccessful, and even the successful challenges resulted in meaningless "penalties" that left monopolists unscathed.

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The Earth from space, wreathed in flames. Protruding from a vast mid-North American impact crater is Microsoft Clippy, shimmering in the heat.

Windows 0-day dropped by disgruntled researcher hands hackers System rights

“SignDrop” exploit lets local users gain all-powerful System rights.

Nightmare Eclipse, the pseudonym of a researcher with an ongoing, very public beef with Microslop, has dropped yet another Windows zero-day.

https://arstechnica.com/security/2026/11/windows-0-day-dropped-by-disgruntled-researcher-hands-hackers-system-rights/

#Microslop #Microsoft #Windows11 #technology #hacking #security #ZeroDay

And so the circle of life in business returns us to the beginning. Because the technology bit us in the ass.

# Teams #Microsoft

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Two manilla envelopes, front and back shown, with inter-department delivery on the front along with a grid with 5 vertical columns and many, many lines. The header of the columns from left to right is “fate, deliver to, department, sent by, department.” It had a red paper button on the flap and back and a string to secure it closed. There are six holes punched in the front and back 2x3 evenly spaced.

Microsoft Teams down? It's your signal to move your teams to Signal 😉📲

End-to-end encrypted, up to 75 participants, screen sharing, call links, raise hand, reactions, desktop clients and more!

Download: https://signal.org/install 💙

#signal #signalapp #signalmessenger #aboutsignal #microsoft #teams #zoom

Depois da pane nos serviços da #Microsoft, #LibreOffice bate recorde de doações em um dia

#boasnoticias
RE: fosstodon.org/users/libreoffic…

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LibreOffice » 🌐 2026-11-13
@libreoffice@fosstodon.org

1,000 donations, and counting
To everyone who has donated, thank you. Your support is what keeps this software and these standards independent.
https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2026/11/14/1000-donations-and-counting/
#LibreOffice

@rysiek @rysiek No, #Microsoft fixed their issue.

@rysiek @rysiek Yes. If anything, I am ignorant of how the system works.

But the reason for the #Microsoft outage (essentially a server status API went down) seems unlikely to affect the #FAA. And a fed I know told me that it didn’t affect the federal version of #Office365, #DoD365, because they’re completely different systems

Hmmm... #FAA uses #Microsoft systems? I'm sure there's no connection with the flights being grounded, eh? (Also, a LOT of humans have been laid off, and I've read that the FAA was using #AI based services...) 🤔

Trump slashes workforce of another federal agency that regulates Musk’s company

The FAA has long faced a staffing crisis, which aviation safety experts warned has contributed to near-miss incidents between aircrafts.

Federal judge expected to rule in case to limit #ElonMusk ’s #DOGE

February 18, 2025 / 06:42
By
Clarissa-Jan Lim
Feb. 18, 2025, 12:29 PM EST

"The Trump administration continued its streak of federal layoffs over the weekend, firing hundreds of employees with the Federal Aviation Administration, which has been struggling with a staffing crisis.

"The Professional Aviation Safety Specialists (PASS) union, which represents the employees, said in a statement that probationary workers were informed of the news beginning Friday evening, through messages “sent from an ‘exec order’ #MicrosoftEmail address, not an official .gov email address.” A spokesperson for the union told NBC News that nearly 300 people — including maintenance mechanics, aeronautical information specialists, environmental protection specialists, aviation safety assistants, and management and program assistants — received termination notices over the weekend."

Source:
https://www.ms.now/top-stories/latest/trump-fires-federal-aviation-administration-employees-spacex-elon-musk-rcna192561

RE: https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/117610994447265569

"Microsoft has demonstrably underinvested in its IT stability. Any IT plan that results in a global, multi-day outage is, by definition, inadequate."
(...)
"Microsoft is too big in every way. Too big to fail, too big to jail and too big to care. Too big to trust. Too big to rely upon. Too big to foster a corporate culture that cares about reliability, a decent workplace, or product quality."
#microsoft #pluralistic #outage

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Cory Doctorow » 🌐 2026-11-13
@pluralistic@mamot.fr

Today's threads (a thread)

Inside: I told you so; and more!

Archived at: https://pluralistic.net/2026/11/13/outlookpocalypse/

#Pluralistic

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The Earth from space, wreathed in flames. Protruding from a vast mid-North American impact crater is Microsoft Clippy, shimmering in the heat.

@rysiek "Friday was the second nationwide ground stop of all departures since the September 11, 2001, attacks."
"the agency earlier reported serious air traffic ​control communications issues." 🙈🙈🙈🙈
They seriously rely on #Microsoft cloud to operate planes? What is this world?

RE: https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/117610952388803770

"In this age of nonstop mergers and acquisitions, we can't afford to make merger approval turn on fact-intensive questions, but we can sure as hell create this administrable, bright-line test for whether a merger should be unwound after the fact. Did your company buy another company and then enshittify both products? Great, now we're breaking you up, and your investors are getting fucked" - @pluralistic

#tech #business #Microsoft

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Cory Doctorow » 🌐 2026-11-13
@pluralistic@mamot.fr

Here's the one weird trick that made it possible for monopolies to conquer the world: the antitrust bar changed the rules so that it was impossible to prove whether a company had formed an illegal monopoly, and then these rules meant that monopolies were almost never challenged, and what challenges did arise were usually unsuccessful, and even the successful challenges resulted in meaningless "penalties" that left monopolists unscathed.

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The Earth from space, wreathed in flames. Protruding from a vast mid-North American impact crater is Microsoft Clippy, shimmering in the heat.

Today is an excellent rehearsal for what happens when the orange con artist in the White House tells #Microsoft to exclude Europe from their services. Do we really want to be this sensitive to blackmail? Or would we rather have our own sovereign services?

So far today has been a great day. Not because #Microsoft rectified its #email outage, but because I spent my lunch break exploring a new sampler. I loaded a sample of someone reading a passage of Shakespeare's Henry V. After splicing it across all 88 keys, I triggered notes randomly to make some groovy gibberish.

I'll be making some more utterly unhinged Shakespearean madness after my shift ends in five minutes.

I never thought I'd ever use the phrase "utterly unhinged Shakespearean madness" but here I am.

#sounddesign #friday #fun #sampling #insane

ah .... la #banquepostale qui annonce pudiquement qu'à la suite d'un dysfonctionnement chez un des ses partenaires, il y a des perturbations dans ses messages .

#outlook #microsoft #souverainete

pas capable d'avoir l'honneteté (et la clairvoyance) de dire "on s'est maqué avec une entreprise qui nous tient pieds et poings liés sur certains services ... voire presque tous ??? "

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the real reason behind the Microsoft Outlook outage

(Post taken from the Debugging Memes Channel, for more content, get the invite link to join here: https://arcanechat.me/channels )

#Microsoft #microsoftoutlook #outlook #dev #developers #developerjokes #programming_humor

Today, I received two emails from two different customers. Both use Zimbra, hosted on one of our servers, and both wrote to thank us.

They pointed out that in ten years of hosting (both have been with us since that server was first set up), they've experienced only a few minutes of downtime. Always during weekends or at night, strictly for maintenance and updates. In fact, they never even noticed.

They also mentioned that many of their contacts, who are rather desperate today, will probably be getting in touch with us over the next few weeks.

Thank you, Microsoft. Today, you've given me the best advertising I could possibly ask for. And you did it for free.

#Microsoft #AvoidMonoculture #Decentralization

#Microsoft #Microsoft365 #Microsoft364

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Lenny, from The Simpsons, swapping "5" in "Microsoft 365" to a "4"

Panne #Microsoft
😂😂😂
(Non, non, c'est pas moi sur la photo)

BTW

all this #tech #debt bullshit kinda makes it obvious, if you were going all in on #aislop it wasn't the devs and tech workers you should have fired. it should have been the managers.

all this aislopping feels like managers were raised to VP and then got rid of the people actually doing the labor of tech, thinking their jobs of cranking bullshit reports is the real money maker.

anyways, devs & tech workers: this #Microsoft #Outlook outtage is definitely your sign to #UNIONIZE

While #Microsoft is still dealing with issues with Exchange Online, we’re releasing another release candidate for #b1gMail 7.4.2. Hopefully, this will be the last one before the final version:
https://codeberg.org/b1gMail/b1gMail/releases/tag/7.4.2-rc5

Have fun testing it out and make the most of this time. Many thanks to cburkhard and @mkleger for contributing bug fixes recently.

#opensource #email #mailserver #php #m365 #diday #SelfHosting

Bien content d'avoir supprimé mon compte MS il y a deux ou trois ans (je ne peut même plus en créer pour cause de bannissement des IPs FDN), et de faire tourner mon propre serveur courriel depuis 2010.

#Microsoft #AutoHebergement

I must say, I don't share the opinion that seems to be general here on the mastosphere, that we wish ill on #Microsoft but are sympathetic to the put-upon engineering staff at Microsoft.

You realise that if the heroic engineers get the services back up in record time, that management will crow that they were right to lay off 60,000 people?

"See? We didn't need them! AI Ftw!"

They will feel that a one-day outage every now and again totally justifies firing 60,000 workers.

#Microsoft

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Microsoft 365 barré, remplacé par 503, Service Unavailable

RE: https://social.vivaldi.net/@sesivany/117609326592359091

YOUR TAXES PAID FOR THIS #OUTLOOK OUTTAGE

if your government depends on #Microsoft to function, that is a transfer of your city/state/country/nation’s #wealth to the fascist USA #broligarchy

Outlook is a #neoliberal #scarcity machine. it exists to empty the coffers of nations, depriving millions of welfare and social services. that’s why Bill Gates is a monster.

your #1 #antifa priority as geeks & freaks is to get your governments to stop using anti-democratic, oligarchic #tech

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Jiří Eischmann » 🌐 2026-11-13
@sesivany@social.vivaldi.net

The long outage of #Microsoft services is an indictment of the current state of #DigitalSovereignty. We talk about it a lot, but when it comes down to it, half of European companies and government agencies lose their ability to communicate during a Microsoft outage. And the other half would lose that ability if Google were to experience an outage.

The situation is particularly dire for government agencies in the Czech Republic. All agencies, including the Czech Army, rely on Microsoft 365.

Microsoft outage: Impact shows risk of M365 bundle lock-in

https://www.computerweekly.com/news/366654819/Microsoft-outage-Impact-shows-risk-of-M365-bundle-lock-in

#tech #technology #news #technews #microsoft #outage #m365

The long outage of #Microsoft services is an indictment of the current state of #DigitalSovereignty. We talk about it a lot, but when it comes down to it, half of European companies and government agencies lose their ability to communicate during a Microsoft outage. And the other half would lose that ability if Google were to experience an outage.

The situation is particularly dire for government agencies in the Czech Republic. All agencies, including the Czech Army, rely on Microsoft 365.

Quand tu ne dépends pas de Microsoft ni pour ta vie perso, ni pour ton boulot (au passage, la ville de Paris mais aussi des services d'Etat sont bloqués, n'hésitez pas à témoigner si vous êtes concernés dans un service sensible, ça m'intéresse, même en DM). Courage!

#Tech #Outlook #Microsoft #Medias #Hacking #Cybersecurity #Tralala

and finally, this is as good time as any to remember that the cloud (and "AI") is just someone else's computer (or "brain") and that you don't have sovereignty over your stuff unless you build core compentency on how to manage it. you can host your own datacenters, VMs, (FREE AND OPEN SOURCE) software, engineers, whatever: you need to draw the line somewhere, but that line can't be drawn at "we know nothing", and this is *especially* true FOR THE PEOPLE RUNNING THE FUCKING CLOUD #microsoft #ai #llm #fail

L'impact de la panne #Outlook #Microsoft chez nos ami(e)s belges :
91 % des communes belges, 100 % des services de police, 80 % des services d'incendie, 83 % des établissements d'enseignement supérieur et 77 % des hôpitaux en dépendent 👉 https://belibre.be/mxmap/?country=BE&color=mail&month=2026-11

#SouverainetéNumérique

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Carte qui montre l'impact de la panne Outlook Microsoft en Belgique

I wish, honestly, that I am wrong. I wish this is a poor human fucking up that is going to live a valuable life lesson. I wish the poor workers with this crazy amount of stress on their shoulders are going to come out okay, and I hope they have access to the tools they need to do their work.

But I bet it's not that: I bet that the workers have lost control over their means of production, and I don't mean "we need #Microsoft to be a coop" here - I'm not that naive - i mean "i don't know how to reboot the servers anymore because claude does it now and the old docs portal and keystore are down"

As Microsoft 365 struggles to fix a global outage, some workers in Japan are beginning to praise the good old fax machine for its reliability. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2026/11/13/microsoft-outage-fax-machine/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #business #microsoft #tech #jobs

Everything that’s happening in the #world right now looks a lot more like a controlled demolition, a classy way to deflate the speculative #bubble and shrink Western #debt.🤔 #NVIDIA #microsoft #AI #banking #crypto

@Lazarou I'm sure Windows syadmins are having fun with this one!

#microsoft #sysadmin #friendlybanterfromlinux

Still going on?
Vibe-coded update was it?
Business customers wondering if all this AI shit is worth the hassle as they can't even access their email?

#Microsoft #Outlook #AIBubble

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Microsoft outage live: millions still affected as disruption stretches beyond 18 hours Microsoft reports it is “continuing to see improvements in service availability”, after millions of customers around the ‘world suffered disruption

i see a lot of people talking about the #Microsoft outage but few speculating as to root causes, and i'm going to go on a leg here: i have no insider information, and there seems to be very little out there explaining the problem, but I bet it's #LLM / AI related.

i base this on what Gregely Orosz said at LDX3 in NYC this year https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ru99FGJ_yuE

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I hereby nominate "Pay Gary" as the catchphrase to be used henceforth whenever any company is experiencing karma from overextending themselves via AI.
https://infosec.exchange/@k3ym0/117607080678996785
#Microsoft #outage

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k3ym𖺀 » 🌐 2026-11-13
@k3ym0@infosec.exchange

INT. REDMOND, BUILDING 34. 3:47 AM. A conference room that smells like cold pizza and regret.

Office 365 EVP: Talk to me. Why is Exchange still down?

MID-LEVEL MANAGER (Dave): So, good news and bad news.

EVP: Give me the good news.

DAVE: We found the service that's failing.

EVP: Great. Who owns it?

DAVE: That's the bad news. It's called auth-bridge-final-v2-REAL. The commit history says it was written by "Copilot" and approved by "Copilot."

EVP: Then get the engineer who prompted it.

DAVE: That was Priya. She was in the Q2 "efficiency realignment."

EVP: Her backup?

DAVE: Also realigned. So was her backup's backup. The whole team is a Slack channel now, and the only one in it is a bot that posts "🚀 LGTM" on every PR.

EVP: Fine. Then we read the code and fix it.

DAVE: We tried. It's 340,000 lines of Python that calls a Rust binary that calls a PowerShell script that curls a Gist. The Gist's README just says "dont touch this lol."

EVP: Documentation?

DAVE: One Confluence page called "Architecture (TODO)." Last edited in 2024. The only content is a Mermaid diagram that fails to render.

EVP: Jesus Christ. Can we roll back?

DAVE: To what? The rollback pipeline was also vibe coded. The last time someone ran it, it rolled back to a version that only existed in the AI's hallucination of what the service should look like.

EVP: So what the fuck have we actually been doing for nine hours?

DAVE: Rebooting servers one at a time and praying. Comms is calling that "restarting affected infrastructure."

EVP: ...Is there anyone left who understands how any of this works?

DAVE: Gary.

EVP: Who's Gary?

DAVE: Contractor. 61 years old. He wrote the original Exchange routing logic in 2003 and he's the only one who knows why there's a sleep(7) in the auth handshake. We let him go in January, but HR forgot to disable his VPN.

EVP: Call Gary.

DAVE: Gary says his rate is now $900 an hour, with a 40-hour minimum, and he wants it in writing that he was right about everything.

EVP: ...Pay Gary.

DAVE: Also, the board wants to know if this will affect the AI efficiency numbers for the earnings call.

EVP: Tell them the outage was caused by "an unexpected interaction during a routine change," and that AI agents are "actively assisting with remediation."

DAVE: Are they?

EVP: Copilot opened a ticket.

DAVE: What did the ticket say?

EVP: "Have you tried turning it off and on again?"

Time to rebrand the flagship #Microsoft product?

I'm doubtful anything will actually happen to #Microsoft as a result of yesterday's global failure.

Convince me otherwise.

#tech #failure #outage #microsoft365 #global

@gabrielesvelto Apparently Microsoft came out with a line of vacuum cleaners.

It's the first product in Microsoft history that doesn't suck.

#Microsoft

Well, it looks like things are finally back into a mostly working state.
Now we get to wait for Microsoft's "full Post-Incident Report with root cause and defense-in-depth actions" which they've promised to publish.
For their sake and ours, I hope they actually manage to figure out the root cause of what went wrong before they try to write a post-incident report about it.
Of course, if they write it with AI, the AI won't care, it'll just make up some shit.
#Microsoft #outage

Funny, popular media is all going on about Nvidia CEO scandals, and "will it crash the AI industry?"

In reality the work at NVDA is done by others and is mostly unaffected by the CEO's philandering.

The more relevant event shaking AI today is Microsoft, which might just be an early example of big global corps going all-in on AI pipedreams getting trapped under cascading, unfixable failures. Technical debt calling in its loans.

#nvidia #microsoft

Is it a coincidence that there's a massive Microsoft outage and its Friday 13th??

#Microsoft

@eobeara https://social.mkj.earth/@mkj/117608605931904657

#Microsoft

When was the start time when the #Microsoft #Outage started? How long is already lasting?
#MicrosoftOutage

@jtmuehlberg A lot of people seem to consider a Microsoft outage as being a natural disaster, so this checks out.

#Microsoft #MicrosoftOutage

Tiens, il y en a qui se posent des questions. De là à passer aux actes...

Si les Américains nous privent de nos mails, on n'est pas très bien » : débrouille, humour ou exaspération, comment les entreprises ont subi la panne Outlook

https://www.lesechos.fr/tech-medias/hightech/si-les-americains-nous-privent-de-nos-mails-on-nest-pas-tres-bien-debrouille-humour-ou-exasperation-comment-les-entreprises-ont-subi-la-panne-outlook-2262563

#gafam #microsoft #down

Who the fuck put Liz truss in charge of Microsoft 365 by the way? #microsoft #lolz

Potential cause of Microsoft 365 outage? #microsoft #microslop #microsoftoutage

So how much local, national government, #police, #nhs etc are broken today, I wonder…?

What scale of real world knock-on problems does such a long platform outage that so many organisations rely on actually look like?

Will anyone actually try to work that out or will it be swallowed up in a mass mumbling-while-looking-at-feet exercise?

#digitalsovereignty #microsoft #publicsector #resilience #digitalresilience

@GossiTheDog
#Microsoft 364,25

I asked #CoPilot: #M365 loses one decimal place every 2.4 hours.

CoPilot was feeling a bit under the weather and Cortana had to cheer him up.
Apparently, Satya Nadella gave him a proper telling-off for installing all the #Windows updates at once. Instead of waiting, as usual, until enough customers’ systems had been wrecked. 🤷🏻‍♂️

Apparently this meeting couldn't have been an email.

#Microsoft #Outlook #Enshittification

#Microsoft #cloud #infosec #internet #Office365 #MicrosoftOutage

Ah well, my 13:00 #Teams meeting didn't happen! One of 480 millions slightly annoyed M365 users! #Microsoft #MicrosoftOutage

I believe Microsoft has gifted as a lot fuel for digital sovereignty debate in Denmark. All these media reports about the  #microsoft365 outage incident are pure gold.  An independent country goes into a stall mode thanks to a single technology vendor facing technical difficulties. And this is even, presumably, not malicious.

#ThankYou #Microsoft

✉️ Vous souhaitez vous émanciper des GAFAM ? Nos mails marchent bien, mais si ce n'est pas le cas des vôtres, on est aussi joignables par téléphone !

👉 https://probesys.coop

#Microsoft #Office365 #Outlook #Blackout #Email #OpenSource #FreeSoftware #SCOP

If this outage turns out to have been caused by AI, I'll accept that I've been wrong this entire time...

...AI would have been beneficial after all!

#microsoft #outage #copilot

FWIW I have confirmation that U.S. federal government agencies are also impacted by the outage. Your tax dollars at work!
#Microsoft #outage

#Microsoft 365^H4

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Microsoft 365^H4

#Microsoft #Nvidia #tech #AI #outage #Huang

27 octobre 2026 : #Microsoft annonce que 60 000 salarié·es vont être viré·es pour financer l #IA

https://www.numerama.com/tech/2361585-microsoft-propose-a-60-000-salaries-de-partir-lapocalypse-de-lemploi-liee-a-lia-a-t-elle-commence.html

13 novembre 2026 : Oopsi tout est cassé

https://www.lemonde.fr/pixels/article/2026/11/13/une-panne-mondiale-d-outlook-empeche-des-dizaines-de-milliers-d-utilisateurs-d-acceder-a-leurs-e-mails_6809171_4408996.html

IL N'Y A PAS DE LIEN

#iacaca

It used to be my job to explain complex technical outages and incidents to very senior executives who didn’t know anything about technology.

Last year, they decided I was unneeded.

Anyways, I’m having a GREAT day.

#microsoft

@abucci Why not just download and install LibreOffice instead? 🙂

#Microsoft #MicrosoftOutage

EDIT: Please note, this post hasn't been update for a long time and still considers Dovecot 2.3.x - but the underlying ideas are still current.

Quite relevant, today:
Make your own E-Mail server - Part 1 - FreeBSD, OpenSMTPD, Rspamd and Dovecot included

https://it-notes.dragas.net/2024/03/08/make-your-own-email-server-freebsd-opensmptd-rspamd-dovecot-part1/

#FreeBSD #RunBSD #email #Microsoft #OwnYourData

I find it kinda funny that the #microsoft #outage gets a live news ticker on #theguardian. It's on par with natural disasters and military escalation.

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Screenshot of theguardian.com. White text on red: "Microsoft outage live: ‘positive results for server stability’ reported, amid global disruption"

We’re continuing to monitor activity across regions to evaluate server status and determine actions that can be taken to improve capacity. This includes reviewing server performance and confirming that developed patches have been applied and working as intended after infrastructure reboots are completed. At this point, we have observed marginal success. In parallel, we’re taking action to expand capacity through the utilization of Virtual Machines.

Is it me, or does it sound like they have no fucking idea what’s going on?? #Microsoft

#microsoft #outlook

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outlook en panne

#Bristol City Council website forms not working today due to #Microsoft meltdown.

Bonjour, vous pouvez continuer à m'envoyer des e-mails, mes messageries ne sont pas hébergées par Microsoft 😇

#Microsoft #Outlook #outage #email

While you are waiting for your (outlook) mail to come online again, you could waste some hours on my notes on how life is in the great SMTP elsewhere: https://nxdomain.no/~peter/eighteen_years_of_greytrapping.html #smtp #mail #email #openbsd #greytrapping #greylisting #spam #antispam #outlook #microsoft #exchange

#Microsoft #cloud #infosec #internet #Office365 #MicrosoftOutage

J’avoue je rigole beaucoup avec les memes qui fleurissent sur la panne #microsoft

Good morning fam!
It's 17 hours into the outage and they still haven't fully recovered.
Does anybody know if this is impacting federal government agencies that use M365? If so, then I imagine there are going to be Congressional hearings about it. 🍿
Heck, given the impact on the economy, there may be Congressional hearings even if federal agencies aren't affected.
#Microsoft #outage

For some reason I think this one https://www.tiltedwindmillpress.com/product/ryoms/ will experience a sales peak very soon @mwl #smtp #email #mail #runyourownmailserver #outlook #microsoft #resilience

Governments around the world grapple with not having access to their email, due to a Microsoft outage. It really is time for them to host their own mail services and generally diversify. Relying so heavily on Big Tech is just a really bad idea.

#Microsoft #Outlook #Mail #Government #EU #Europa

#Microsoft #NHS
https://edition.cnn.com/2026/11/12/business/live-news/microsoft-global-outage-intl-hnk?post-id=cmwerv9yb00003b6t59pnxe3a

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A Microsoft outage causing disruptions to the email system of the UK's National Health Service is expected to prevent some patients from getting their drug prescriptions Friday. The outage "affects a pharmacy's ability to communicate with GP practices and some patients," a spokesperson for the National Pharmacy Association said in a Friday statement. GPs are equivalent to family doctors in the US. An NPA spokesperson told CNN in a separate phone call that, while many patients will get their medications, those with more complex prescriptions requiring a pharmacist to contact the prescribing doctor to check or query any details could experience delays. The spokesperson added that Fridays are typically busy days at pharmacies. "It's just a massive pain. It will be slow today," they said.

RE: https://spore.social/@yoginho/117607915649897895

This is actually interesting: #Microsoft is a good model of how all our software infrastructure will evolve in the future. Bad engineering and kludges upon kludges. This behemoth of a mess will stumble on into the future and most people will not care (or simply assume to be inevitable) that we'll get increasing service disruptions, privacy leaks, and security breaches, because they know no other way to use software. /1

"Company reliance on one system makes outages like this a severe challenge"

No shit, Sherlock?

https://www.bbc.com/news/live/cq5y10ge3dp3t?post=asset:1123e5cc-88d9-45ce-9a59-8f8610c2ae70#asset:1123e5cc-88d9-45ce-9a59-8f8610c2ae70

#Microsoft #Microsoft365 #MicrosoftOutage

Hold on, this began at like 02 hours Friday the 13th, Kiribati time, which would be midnight toward Friday the 13th on Wake Island, Micronesia, United States of America (which is UTC+12)? That can't be a coincidence, can it?

#Microsoft #MicrosoftOutage

Folks, I have to confess that I caused the global email catastrophe.

I wrote such a divinely perfect email yesterday that AI decided it would never be topped and closed down the entire email infrastructure as being redundant and a waste of resources.

#Microsoft

#Microsoft #panne
J'aime bien la blague qui circule :
"Ce n'est pas une panne Microsoft. C'est un test surprise de souveraineté numérique."

In einem anderen Vorstellungsgespräch bei einem großen Sozialen Träger, der im Frühjahr 2025 gerade dabei war alle mehrere Hundert Arbeitsplatz-PCs zu MS Office365 zu migrieren und die internen Server abzubauen und in die MS Cloud zu verschieben, auf meinen Einwand bezüglich digitaler Souveränität:
"Für uns ist das in Ordnung so." (wörtlich)

Nun ja ...

#Microsoft

Robert boosted

Pandolin » 🌐 2026-11-13
@axel@social.isarosc.de

99,9 Prozent Verfügbarkeit, das sind 43 Minuten Ausfall im Monat. Exchange Online hatte dieses Budget gestern um 18:00 Uhr verbraucht. Seitdem läuft die Zugabe.

74 Länder binnen einer Stunde die wie Dominosteine kippen. In Japan haben Ministerien auf Papier gearbeitet, Neuseeland hat die Visa-Bearbeitung gestoppt. Microsoft hat über Nacht fünf Erklärungen geliefert, eine bestätigte Ursache war nicht dabei. Copilot kann dazu nichts sagen, er ist selbst betroffen.

Mein Mitgefühl gilt den Admins. Sie können nichts reparieren, weil ihnen nichts davon gehört. Ihnen bleibt die Statusseite, und nicht einmal das Admin Center lädt zuverlässig. Als Trost winkt laut SLA eine Gutschrift. Aber nur auf Antrag!

Und irgendwo sitzt jemand, der neulich „alternativlos“ in eine Vorlage geschrieben hat.

Befangen bin ich natürlich: Ich verkaufe das Gegenmodell, bei der Heinlein Gruppe mit #mailbox.org, #OpenCloud und #opentalk . OpenCloud und OpenTalk sind Open Source, ihr könnt beides ganz ohne uns betreiben. Wer vorerst bei Microsoft bleiben muss, bekommt bei mailbox mit #EVAC eine zweite Kommunikationsplattform im Standby. Ja, das war die Werbung.

Auch unser Zeug fällt irgendwann aus. Aber nicht in 74 Ländern gleichzeitig.

Souveränität heißt nicht, dass nichts ausfällt. Sie heißt, dass ihr dann Optionen habt.

One outage. One Plan B. One less excuse.

#Microsoft365 #Outlook #ExchangeOnline #Störung #DigitaleSouveränität #OpenSource #BigTech #Sysadmin #NIS2 #mailboxorg #OpenCloud #OpenTalk #FediverseFirst

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Dunkle Textgrafik. Oben: Stand Freitag, 13.11.2026, 10:00 Uhr. Darunter: Erlaubter Ausfall pro Monat bei 99,9 % Verfügbarkeit: 43 Minuten, dargestellt als winziger heller Balken. Darunter groß: Exchange Online, gestört seit Donnerstag, 17:17 Uhr: 16 Stunden 43 Minuten, dargestellt als oranger Balken über die volle Breite. Fußzeile: pandolin.io und der Satz „Rechnen dürft ihr selbst."

• #storung
• #digitalesouveranitat

So I performed a quick investigative RCA (Root Cause Analysis) based on what we currently know of the #Microsoft #Teams outage.

The RC appears to be a serious case of Find Out after Fucking Around with Badly Understood Systems (FOFA-BUS).

I've asked ChatMyself to generate a graph on our fridge door to illustrating the result. See below.

Just thought this could be useful for the people currently limited to physical meetings.

edit: yes there are spelling issues. It's that Human Touch. 🦆

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a graph. A axis is Fuck Around, B axis is Find Out. It all comes to a painful clash in point C, the Vibe Calamity.

#microsoft may be down, but you know what isn’t?
the #FEDIVERSE

Apropos Microsoft-Ausfall:
In einem Vorstellungsgespräch bei einem Software-Unternehmen, das für die Autoindustrie entwickelt, hieß es, dass "praktisch die gesamte Branche auf MS O365 mit Teams setzt".

Da dürfte es heute wohl auch ruhig oder hektisch zugehen - je nach Abteilung 😆

#Microsoft

RE: https://mastodon.scot/@ISawTheWood/117608418142030595

So, when there's an outage due to human error the benefit is that the human usually knows how to fix it, but what about when the cause is an AI error, do you think the AI knows how to fix it? 🤔

Pro-tip, it doesn't 😂

#Microsoft #Microslop #Outlook #Human #VS #AI #Error

"Japan’s National Disaster Management Agency said in a post on social media: “Due to the ongoing widespread Microsoft 365 outage, the Disaster Management Agency is also currently unable to send or receive email.
(...)
One of the biggest banks in Malaysia, Maybank, warned customers of scams as it said “email communications may experience delays at this time”.

“We also advise customers to remain vigilant against scams,” the bank added on X."

On X - of course 🙄

Affected: 74 countries around the world - holy moly!

#Microsoft #Outlook #Teams #DisasterManagement

There’s only one job these days, and it’s emails, which means no-one has any work to do this morning! #Microsoft

Maybe maybe maybe...

#Microsoft just fired the wrong guy...

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Denys Nedry from Jurssic Park at his desk.

As Microsoft continues to struggle with the major outage that has seen Outlook email systems fail across the world, and knock-on effects across other systems integrated with Microsoft services, its once again an indication of how dangerous reliance on a centralised global information system provider is.

Microsoft does not regard this as cyber-attack but rather an internal tech-failure, but cyber attackers will no doubt be watching the chaos & wondering how they could mimic this...

#Microsoft

At this point I think we should rename Microsoft to Marvin - the depressed robot from Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy - it's about as functional

#Microsoft

so many reports of governments at all levels in Canada being basically shut down due to reliance on Teams and Microsoft Outlook, same with education, health, emergency management - and it's still not resolved, even getting worse

This should be a wake up call for massive regulation and oversight - and take control, own the systems rather than outsource to expensive failing services

#CDNpoli #BCpoli #Microsoft

"For many, working at Microsoft has become joyless and demoralizing, with job satisfaction declining around the same time the company accelerated its AI investments."

https://accountableai.ms

#Microsoft

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Dear Fellow Microsoft Workers, At Microsoft, we are expected to carry out the company’s AI vision and strategy, and we take this responsibility seriously. The company continues to pursue AI technology with a "speed-at-all-costs" ethos, and we’ve watched them abandon established values, harming our customers, colleagues, shareholders, vendors, and the planet. As Satya recently said, “everyone is a stakeholder in AI.” and in that spirit, we feel obligated to speak up. We hold these concerns, and recognize them in our peers: For many, working at Microsoft has become joyless and demoralizing, with job satisfaction declining around the same time the company accelerated its AI investments. Crushing workloads, threats of AI job replacement and layoffs, constantly shifting business priorities, and re-orgs destabilize our work environment and erode employee trust in leadership. Enforced adoption of AI tools is making our morale, work, and products worse. Workers are forced to use AI in almost every work area, with little to no training and no strategic rationale besides “speed.” This creates a costly downward cycle of learning and relearning tools, fixing AI slop, and reworking or rolling back low-quality features.

We invented the internet specifically to survive a nuclear war via decentralisation, then spent the last twenty years cramming the whole thing into three cloud providers and calling it "progress."

Ukraine just reminded us in real-time why single points of failure are a bad idea, yet somehow, we’ll still act shocked the next time one outage takes down half the planet.

This is a subtoot about Microsoft.

#Microsoft #Down #Decentralise

Reminder that if you're using @libreoffice for your office suite needs and their website goes down then your LibreOffice copy will still be on your computer and it will still work just fine.

Those using Microsoft's office 365 right now can't use their office suite and a lot of other Microslop products. https://status.cloud.microsoft/

Perhaps they should rename it office 363 or less depending on how this outage lasts?

#software #cloud #microsoft

💡 Voici un énième rappel des limites et des dangers des services propriétaires centralisés avec cette panne mondiale 🌎 de #Microsoft qui impacte 74 pays !

💡 Avec des #LogicielsLibres décentralisés installés sur vos serveurs, la panne d’un service n’affecte jamais les autres.

🛡️ C’est le principe de toutes les solutions collaboratives #OpenSource d’Arawa, avec la transparence et les libertés informatiques que l'on connaît.

🔗 https://www.lesechos.fr/tech-medias/hightech/microsoft-une-panne-mondiale-doutlook-teams-et-copilot-paralyse-entreprises-et-administrations-2262462

#️⃣ #GAFAM #Outlook #Copilot #Teams

Wenn man sich den Hashtag #microsoft so ansieht, könnte man echt auf die Idee kommen, dass zentralisierte Services doch keine sooo gute Idee sind.

Microsoft issues cascading into Telecom problems then bleeding into 911 outages. 🤦‍♂️
#houseofcards #microsoft

Une panne Outlook un vendredi.

Quel dommage.

Olala.

#outlook #microsoft

Et toi, ton vendredi ?
#Microsoft

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Capture d'écran de la page de status de M365 montrant que c'est le gros bordel.

Is everyone ready for the Great Renaming Spree that #Microsoft will go through next week to purge the world of "365"?

Merci à #Microsoft d’avoir éteint #Outlook 🙏

S’il pouvait éteindre aussi #Teams, ça serait encore plus gentil 😇

#TeamChommageTechnique

The world had itself a massive productivity spike today as #microsoft #outlook and #teams broke down.

"I felt a great disturbance in the Force, as if millions of brains suddenly cried out in happiness and were suddenly able to think in complete sentences.", said one user.

Thank you microsoft for this #noemailsfriday !
This is a brilliant idea and I am sure a lot of us in academia are keen to reproduce it.

#microsoft #outlook #academia

If you want to lessen your dependency on Microsoft, or other big technology companies, and went some ideas, here's what I do for to run my own small law firm on Free software:

https://decoded.legal/blog/2026/11/running-a-law-firm-on-free-software-2026-edition/

And, while I prefer to self-host, that is not a requirements - lots of small hosting companies could help with the hosted aspects of this.

#Microsoft #FreeSoftware #lawfedi

Sorry. Was muss noch alles passieren, bis man als Microsoft Benutzer merkt, dass M365 totaler Schrott ist? Es gibt bessere und günstigere Alternativen! #M365 #Microsoft #Nextcloud #EuroOffice #did #Datenschutz #DSGVO

I made a meme

#Microsoft #outlook #enshitification #SRE

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"I should buy a boat cat" with kitty reading the morning newspapers, meme altered "I should send IT an email that email is down"

Wo sind denn jetzt die ganzen Leute, die sich ständig über Fax lustig machen? 😜
#outlook #microsoft #azure

So I performed a quick investigative RCA (Root Cause Analysis) based on what we currently know of the #Microsoft #Teams outage.

The RC appears to be a serious case of Find Out after Fucking Around with Badly Understood Systems (FOFA-BUS).

I've asked ChatMyself to generate a graph on our fridge door to illustrating the result. See below.

Just thought this could be useful for the people currently limited to physical meetings.

edit: yes there are spelling issues. It's that Human Touch. 🦆

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a graph. A axis is Fuck Around, B axis is Find Out. It all comes to a painful clash in point C, the Vibe Calamity.

#microsoft #outlook is down! I assume this is the result of vibecoding an update? Even third party email clients are down!

How is this possible from a multi billion dollar company to just push an update that breaks something as basic as email?

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Downdetector graph for Outlook showing a huge spike at nearly 1500 problems reported in the last hours

Pour le mail comme pour le reste. La robustesse, c'est aussi la diversité.
Cela permet de rappeler qu'il ne faut pas mettre tous ces œufs dans le même panier.

https://www.franceinfo.fr/internet/microsoft/une-panne-mondiale-touche-la-messagerie-outlook-de-microsoft-les-mesures-pour-la-resoudre-ne-fonctionnent-pas-comme-prevu_8280422.html
#panne #mail #gafam #microsoft

Microsoft364

#Microsoft

Everything from #Microsoft was down

Looking forward to the ticket queue tomorrow

#microsoft

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Microsoft 364

Wir brauchen dringend mehr von diesen Ausfällen. Viel mehr.

#microsoft #microslop #email #outlook #did #digitaleSouveränität

If this is not a cyber-attack, it is 'incredible incompetence' -- BBC

https://www.bbc.com/news/live/cq5y10ge3dp3t?post=asset%3Aaed7b2cc-1dcc-4e24-8848-98743d28f221

#microsoft #aislop

RE: https://federate.social/@jik/117605902115667943

LOL, they’re literally turning it off and on again 🤣🤣🤣

#microsoft

anarcat boosted

Jonathan Kamens 86 47 » 🌐 2026-11-12
@jik@federate.social

"We still don't know what the fuck is wrong or how to fix it."
#MicrosoftStatusUpdateTranslator #Microsoft #outage

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Current status: We’re continuing to pursue all available pathways to restore service, as our actions taken thus far have not provided the anticipated relief. Our investigation has found that a core process on the affected servers is becoming overwhelmed, which causes the servers to stop responding and contributes to the capacity loss. To validate a potential recovery approach, we're fully isolating a portion of our service infrastructure, restarting the affected components, and gradually reintroducing traffic to confirm our services remain stable before applying this approach more broadly. We're also analyzing traffic patterns across our entire service infrastructure and evaluating whether isolating traffic within each region may allow affected regions to recover independently.

Probably too soon for any “Computer Says No” jokes.

#Microsoft #Walliams

RE: https://beige.party/@ptoothfish/117606140986578212

You can bet in that war room there are a few “consultants” that were on payroll not so long ago.

#microsoft

Je ne suis pas goth boosted

🎂ptoothfish(birthmonth variant)🎉 » 🌐 2026-11-12
@ptoothfish@beige.party

hey microsoft have you tried emailing some of those engineers you laid off?

@dougmadory There will be a big press conference tomorrow when #Microsoft announces a whole new product line called “Office 364.”

Has anyone at #Microsoft tried this yet?

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4-panel comic strip: Panel1: User calling in saying, "Yeah, Tech Support! I think the server is down!" Panel2: Technician saying "OK, I'll take care of it." Panel3: Technician patting a tearful and very sad looking server on its head, saying, "Don't be down, server. We all think you're doing a great job, and everyone likes you." Panel4: Server has been given a boost and seems a little happier.

@cvwarren WTF kind of update is this? Is this MS Jabberwocky 365?

We’ve monitored the status of the slithy toves and confirmed they did gyre and gimble in the wabe. We identified alternate
mimsy that can be applied to the borogoves, to increase the mome in the face of sustained raths outgrabe.
#m364 #microsoft

Quick tip: if you read your Fastmail in Outlook and this week made you want to throw your laptop, your mail’s also at app.fastmail.com and in our app, so you’re never stuck waiting.

Some versions of Outlook read a copy of your mail from Microsoft’s servers, rather than straight from ours.

Thinking of switching? Start at fastmail.com

#Email #Fastmail #Businesscontinuity #Productivity #Emaildoneright #microsoft #outlook #emailexperts

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No Connection to Outlook? You can always access your mail at app.fastmail.com or in our app.

#Microsoft #Outlook #meme #shitpost

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Magic 8 ball that says "outlook not so good"

So apparently #Microsoft is having a huge network outage that's still ongoing. I hadn't noticed since I use ProtonMail for email and host my own Nextcloud for cloud storage, but apparently a lot of their systems have been down for basically the entire day. Besides Outlook not loading at all, OneDrive is very slow, but the page does load, but doesn't show any of the files others have shared with me there. It just shows an error page and then asks me to log back in, but logging in doesn't work.

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A screenshot of the error I get on the OneDrive page. It reads: Sorry, something went wrong Unknown render failure. Please try again or refresh the page.

So, the CEO of Microsoft, and probably the COO and CTO get canned for this, right?

Does any board permit the c-suite to fire 60,000 clearly essential employees and then witness core offerings collapse at a global scale and leave them in place?

#microsoft #outage #outlook

“In its latest update, Microsoft attributed this incident to “a large number of servers being unexpectedly unavailable””

Ah yes, our servers are down because they are unexpectedly unavailable.

#microsoft #outlook #outage

https://techcrunch.com/2026/11/12/microsofts-outlook-email-hit-by-new-outage/

I don't use it, but I checked and #Outlook is still refusing to load for me here in eastern Kentucky, and this article was posted 7 hours ago.

Title: Microsoft Exchange, Outlook, SharePoint go down right after Teams outage

Subtitle: #Microsoft has confirmed that various M365 services have slowed down as they have been hit by an outage. The company is investigating and has released some preliminary details.

Link: https://www.neowin.net/news/microsoft-exchange-and-outlook-go-down-right-after-teams-outage/

OK my friends, thanks for going on this journey with me today. I'm going to go get some sleep, confident in the knowledge that when I wake up in the morning Microsoft 365 will be fully recovered and running like a smoothly oiled machine.
#Microsoft #outage

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Anakin Padme meme Anakin: We're going to end the M365 outage Padme: In less than 16 hours, right? Anakin: … Padme: In less than 16 hours, right?

This is the most absurd status update I think I’ve ever seen with a straight face.

> While the servers we've returned to service initially remain healthy, we've observed that they can become unresponsive again once they begin receiving traffic.

Do you typically see servers become unresponsive before they carry any traffic? Is there any scenario in which “healthy until given load” is meaningful in any way?

#microsoft #infosec

How many emails are queued up waiting to be sent to Microsoft?

#m365 #outage #microsoft

I think we're seeing real momentum here, they may have actually figured out how to get things back up and running.
(This is not necessarily the same as figuring out the root cause of the outage, but I'll take it.)
#Microsoft #outage

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Current status: We’re applying infrastructure capacity improvements where possible in an effort to help support traffic in regions coming online. We’re continuing to monitor the results of changes applied so we can identify strategic actions that can help to improve service health across all affected regions.

My guess is the real fix here was reverting the network configuration change. All the other changes while trying to fix the outage may or may not have been correct and worth making, but reverting the network configuration change was the key.
So why they didn't know immediately that there had been a network configuration change right before the outage that should have been reverted?
What kind of a keystone cops change management system are they running?
#Microsoft #outage

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Current status: We’re seeing positive results with our efforts to restart affected infrastructure. We’re actively monitoring the performance of these to verify stability which will support improved availability. Remediation actions will be expanded as we confirm stability with the changes applied.

Microsoft, you absolute tease, you can't keep telling us you figured it out and then being wrong.
But I'm a glutton for punishment, because here I am hoping that this time they really have figured it out.
#Microsoft #outage

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Current status: Our investigation has found that a process on the affected servers responsible for establishing secure connections becomes overwhelmed, causing the servers to stop processing requests. We're preparing a configuration change to address this behavior that can be applied across all affected servers, and we're validating it on a subset of servers before applying it more broadly alongside restarts of the affected infrastructure. In parallel, we've begun reverting a recent network configuration change that correlates with the start of impact and are monitoring to determine whether this contributes to recovery. The temporary traffic limitations we previously described are now in effect in specific locations. We're monitoring the affected servers in those locations to confirm whether they remain stable while handling a narrower set of connections, after which we'll gradually reintroduce additional traffic.

Rumor has it #Microsoft is bringing in some outside troubleshooting expert

This should be resolved pretty quick

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Wheatley, the intelligence dampening sphere from Portal 2 source: https://www.kindpng.com/imgv/himobmT_thumb-image-wheatley-portal-2-png-transparent-png/

Btw, there is no #Microsoft outage when you don’t use Microsoft 🤷

You know, the Internet was designed as a distributed network where any one failure can be routed around... but some still think that building skyscrapers in villages is a good idea 🤷🏼‍♂️

#aws #facebook #google #microsoft #o365 #outage #steam

I should not be amazed but the number of posts saying everything from local governments to emergency management to banking services have shut down because Microsoft 365 is down - we are way too reliant on these systems

Canada needs our own sovereign systems and strict regulations on advanced cyber protections

#CDNpoli #Microsoft

I've made some incorrect guesses in this thread during this developing situation, but I just want to point out that I was right about one thing: the health monitor was not the root cause, and changing the health monitor did not solve the problem.
Ref: https://federate.social/@jik/117605297373243243
#Microsoft #outage

@jik
I think #Microsoft sucked trillions of dollars out of the world economy today.

"We STILL don't know what the fuck is wrong or how to fix it."
#MicrosoftStatusUpdateTranslator #Microsoft #outage

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— Microsoft 365 Status & @MSFT3655tatus - 3m A The servers we retuned to service can become unresponsive again once they receive traffic; we're analyzing diagnostic data to determine what's triggering the behavior. In parallel, we're temporarily limiting which types of traffic can reach the affected infrastructure in some locations. Additionally, we're rebuilding a subset of affected servers using a previous configuration to validate if this prevents them from becoming unresponsive. More info under EX1550543 and MO1550821 in the Microsoft 365 admin center, as well as status.cloud. microsoft if the admin center is not available to you.

- I just noticed that Outlook on my phone received a single email message at 5:58pm US/Eastern, a bit over an hour ago.
- Still no new emails in Outlook desktop. Message in my Outbox there is still stuck. - Still can't get to https://outlook.office365.com/. But! It loads slightly more than before, before crapping out.
So, faint, occasional signs of life, but still widespread debility.
#Microsoft #outage

#Microsoft cloud issues will turn out to be caused by:

As for how they'll reintroduce full production traffic, that's obvious…
#Microsoft #outage

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Calvin: HOW DO THEY KNOW THE LOAD LIMIT ON BRIDGES, DAD? Calvin's Dad: THEY DRIVE BIGGER AND BIGGER TRUCKS OVER THE BRIDGE UNTIL IT BREAKS. THEN THEY WEIGH THE LAST TRUCK AND REBUILD THE BRIDGE. Calvin: OH. I SHOULD'VE GUESSED. Calvin's Mom: DEAR, IF YOU DON'T KNOW THE ANSWER, JUST TELL HIM!

Here is my best guess of their current theory:
- Health monitor malfunctions, starts taking out servers that weren't really unhealthy.
- Remaining servers are overwhelmed by load shunted from taken-down servers.
- This provokes a vicious cycle they can't get out of because whenever a server comes back online it is immediately overwhelmed and goes red again.
- Only way to recover is to throttle inbound traffic to servers, get them back online, gradually unthrottle traffic.
#Microsoft #outage

Maybe some real progress this time? (Not too much, though, I still haven't received any M365 emails in >5 hours.)
But note: to my recollection at no point have they indicated that they understand the root cause of this outage. Everything they've done seems to have involved either treating the symptoms or making wild guesses about what might improve things.
We're >5 hours into this global outage and they apparently still don't know what caused it.
#Microsoft #outage

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Current status: We've begun returning a portion of the affected servers to service, and they're remaining stable so far. We’ve also shifted traffic and connections to alternative pathways wherever possible and have observed limited recovery in some regions. We've streamlined our recovery process to expedite returning the remaining affected servers to service. To further support recovery, we're implementing protective traffic management measures in a specific location to reduce load on the affected infrastructure, and we'll expand these measures to additional locations if we observe positive results. As capacity is restored, users may experience a gradual recovery as their clients reconnect to the service.

"We still don't know what the fuck is wrong or how to fix it."
#MicrosoftStatusUpdateTranslator #Microsoft #outage

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Current status: We’re continuing to pursue all available pathways to restore service, as our actions taken thus far have not provided the anticipated relief. Our investigation has found that a core process on the affected servers is becoming overwhelmed, which causes the servers to stop responding and contributes to the capacity loss. To validate a potential recovery approach, we're fully isolating a portion of our service infrastructure, restarting the affected components, and gradually reintroducing traffic to confirm our services remain stable before applying this approach more broadly. We're also analyzing traffic patterns across our entire service infrastructure and evaluating whether isolating traffic within each region may allow affected regions to recover independently.

This Microsoft outage is what snow days in the 1970s used to feel like.

#outage #MicrosoftOutage #MicrosoftOutlookOutage #Microsoft

Just got a message from my county emergency alert system that perfectly encapsulates the state of the world:

"Due to the Microsoft outage, the Resiliency Commission Meeting scheduled for tonight has been canceled."

#microsoft #dystopia

#Microsoft n'est pas interopérable (https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interop%C3%A9rabilit%C3%A9).
Il s'est bien arrangé pour faire entrer ses formats dans une norme ISO (qu'il a créé pour lui), mais depuis quelques temps il ne respecte même plus sa propre norme #ISO.
Si bien qu'il est difficile pour les développeurs de logiciels ouverts de lire correctement les fichiers de format Microsoft office (docx et autres extensions où le x est trompeur), puis de pouvoir produire du #XML #TEI

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Un bout de fichier XML où l'on reconnaît les balises ouvrante et fermante à chevrons<> Pour aller plus loin : https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extensible_Markup_Language

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Logo pour la TEI : text encoding initiative La TEI est un format de balisage dans le champ des humanités numériques utilisé particulièrement pour des documents textuels Pour aller plus loin : https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Text_Encoding_Initiative

It appears that #Microsoft has now published at least three different service health articles about this outage in the admin center—EX1550543, TM1550488, and MO1550821—and told people to look at them, and then made two of them disappear. It appears EX1550543 is the only one left standing at this point.
Followup: see https://federate.social/@jik/117605259128123177

Anecdata: progress or not, https://outlook.office365.com/ is still inaccessible to people in our company, and an outbound message in the Outbox of my desktop Outlook app is still undelivered after 2 1/2 hours, and I haven't received any new emails in my desktop Outlook since the start of the outage.
I'm also still seeing errors loading pages in the Teams desktop app.
In short, I'm personally seeing no sign things are back up and working.
#Microsoft #outage

Pour ma revue universitaire en ligne, j'ai reçu tous mes articles.
J'ai passé des heures à mettre les italiques, les espaces insécables, etc., et balisages des titres et autres.
Mes fichiers odt semblaient bien propres mais une fois envoyés en ligne : plus rien n'était propre. Sont apparues des paragraphes écrit de D à G, des retours à la ligne non désirés
Et là j'apprends que nativement les articles étaient au format #Microsoft 365
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Microsoft-365-Störung: Serverausfälle legen Teams, Exchange und Copilot lahm

Eine Störung bei Microsoft 365 beeinträchtigt weltweit zahlreiche Cloud-Dienste wie Exchange Online, Teams, SharePoint, Copilot und Defender XDR.

https://www.heise.de/news/Microsoft-365-Stoerung-Serverausfaelle-legen-Teams-Exchange-und-Copilot-lahm-11523565.html?wt_mc=sm.red.ho.mastodon.mastodon.md_beitraege.md_beitraege&utm_source=mastodon

#CloudDienste #IT #Microsoft #Microsoft #MicrosoftCopilot #MicrosoftTeams #news

Progress!
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We've validated an alternative health check method on a subset of affected infrastructure, which allowed the servers in that subset to successfully return to service, and we're now applying this change more broadly. We're also preparing an automated recovery process to continually detect and restart unresponsive servers, to help keep them in service while this change progresses. Additionally, our review of recent changes has identified a small number of configuration updates that we're investigating as potential contributors to the issue.

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Skinner am I out of touch mem. Top frame: "$MSFT: Is there something wrong with our servers?" Bottom frame: "No, it's the health monitors that are wrong."

Holy shit, this is completely incomprehensible to me. Paraphrasing: "We made a change to a bunch of servers to test it out, and many of those servers became unresponsive after we made the change, so now we're going to make that same change to many more servers to test it out more broadly!"
wtaf
I _can't_ be reading that right. Please, tell me I'm not reading it right.
#Microsoft #outage

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Current status: While validating the targeted change, we found that many of the affected servers have become unresponsive, which is preventing us from confirming whether the change is effective. We're restarting these servers so they can come back online with the change in place, and we're applying the same approach to additional affected portions of our infrastructure to validate the results more broadly. Previous Status: While we haven't identified any recent changes that correlate with the start of impact, our investigation indicates the failed health checks may originate from a specific component on the affected servers that's responsible for processing them. We're deploying a targeted change to bypass this component on a subset of servers to validate whether this restores availability, and we've taken steps to prevent additional servers from being removed from service while we work to return the affected servers to service. We're also investigating why affected servers are experiencing elevated processor usage while handling requests.

Outlook and other #Microsoft services seem to be experiencing a massive outage:
https://status.cloud.microsoft/m365/referrer=serviceStatusRedirect

Over a year ago Satya Nadella bragged about how 30% of new MS code is slop:
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/04/29/satya-nadella-says-as-much-as-30percent-of-microsoft-code-is-written-by-ai.html

I think it's only fair, then, to ask how much "AI" contributed to this outage. After all, similar outages at AWS ended up being linked to their "AI" agent:
https://rys.io/en/182.html

Now neither MO1550821 nor EX1550543 is showing up in search results when you search for them in the admin center.
They're still open, search just isn't returning them.
What a shitshow.
#Microsoft #outage
https://federate.social/@jik/117605259128123177

Jonathan Kamens 86 47 » 🌐 2026-11-12
@jik@federate.social

This just in, MO1550821 has now reappeared on the M365 admin center's service health page, joining EX1550543, but TM1550488 is still gone.
Earlier:
https://federate.social/@jik/117605188767298955

Jonathan Kamens 86 47 » 🌐 2026-11-12 / 2026-11-12
@jik@federate.social

It appears that #Microsoft has now published at least three different service health articles about this outage in the admin center—EX1550543, TM1550488, and MO1550821—and told people to look at them, and then made two of them disappear. It appears EX1550543 is the only one left standing at this point.
Followup: see https://federate.social/@jik/117605259128123177

Microsoft theorizes that the servers that are claiming to be unhealthy and therefore getting taken out of service and sending more load to other servers, thus overwhelming those servers, aren't _actually_ unhealthy, it's actually _the health monitor itself_ that is malfunctioning. So they're going to bypass it and see if that helps.
Look, I've been in exactly this situation. I'm not saying it's _impossible_ that the health monitor is the root cause… but it usually isn't.
#Microsoft #outage

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While we haven't identified any recent changes that correlate with the start of impact, our investigation indicates the failed health checks may originate from a specific component on the affected servers that's responsible for processing them. We're deploying a targeted change to bypass this component on a subset of servers to validate whether this restores availability, and we've taken steps to prevent additional servers from being removed from service while we work to return the affected servers to service. We're also investigating why affected servers are experiencing elevated processor usage while handling requests.

I don't want to be too dramatic, but I don't think it's an exaggeration to say that an outage this long and widespread in Microsoft 365 is significant enough to have a noticeable impact on the world economy.
Amazingly, despite the fact that pretty much every financial institution uses Microsoft 365, the stock market doesn't seem to have noticed this outage. $MSFT is as of this writing up 0.30% on the day.
#Microsoft #Microsoft365 #M365 #outage

It appears that #Microsoft has now published at least three different service health articles about this outage in the admin center—EX1550543, TM1550488, and MO1550821—and told people to look at them, and then made two of them disappear. It appears EX1550543 is the only one left standing at this point.
Followup: see https://federate.social/@jik/117605259128123177

#TechIsShitDispatch
I mean obviously everything is shit given the current #Microsoft outage, but one specific piece of shit is that the #M365 admin center let's you copy a link to a particular service health article, but when you actually to visit that link you get this, rendering the link-copying functionality entirely useless.

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You need to search for something first! Type your query into the Search box above, and then press Enter to view all results by category.

#Microsoft #cloud #infosec #internet

Here, let me translate this new update from #Microsoft: "We still don't know what the fuck is wrong or how to fix it."
#outage #M365 #Microsoft365

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Screenshot from status.cloud.microsoft: © Microsoft 365 (Business or Enterprise) A Users may be unable to connect to multiple Microsoft 365 services Hide details ~ User impact: Users may be unable to connect to multiple Microsoft 365 services. More info: Potentially impacted services include: - Exchange Online - Microsoft Teams - SharePoint Online - Microsoft Copilot 365 - Microsoft Defender XDR Current status: We're aggressively pursuing all pathways to reduce impact. As a precaution, we've paused all deployments and configuration changes while we review recent changes for any correlation to this event. We've also moved traffic for some services off the affected infrastructure to further reduce load, with additional traffic moves in progress. Scope of impact: This issue may affect users attempting to access the affected Microsoft 365 services. Next update by: Thursday, November 12, 2026, at 9:00 PM UTC Last updated: Thursday, November 12, 2026 at 7:16:03 PM UTC

#HugOps to the folks at #Microsoft who are cleaning up the mess, whatever the cause. I'm sure they're having a day.

For 2026 🙏 to Reinhard Wiesemann, #qualcomm, @protonprivacy , @linuxhotel and @openproject for their generous support (>=1500€ per month). For >=300€ a month 🙏#Bosch, #Eriksson, #Fastbill, #Google, @heinleinsupport , @intevation , #Kraken Technologies, @linuxfoundation , #Mercedes, #Microsoft , Niels Schneider, Open Education and Software Association, @proxmox , @sysmocom , @httptoolkit , and #ycombinator ! And to everyone else 🙏 for their ongoing support of @fsfe 's work https://fsfe.org/donate/thankgnus-2026.en.html

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List of the donors in the first two categories from the URL in the post.

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List of donors from the third level from the URL in the post.

Ihr Cloud-Speicher-Kontingent ändert sich von 1 TB pro Person auf 2 TB gemeinsam genutzten Speicher, [...]

"thanks #microsoft, i knew i could trust you to fuck it up *just right*"

@sebsauvage comme toujours avec les dealers de #Microsoft, seule la première dose est gratuite...

#Microsoft #éducation
En Grande-Bretagne Microsoft offrait le service mail Exchange, Sharepoint et Teams aux étudiants des écoles, lycées et universités.
Mais comme tout le fric est parti dans l'IA, y'a plus d'argent chez Microsoft : FINIS LES MAILS GRATUITS ! (fini aussi Teams et Sharepoint gratuits). Il va falloir payer.
https://www.theregister.com/saas/2026/11/10/microsoft-teaches-schools-that-free-email-was-just-a-phase/5308371

Microsoft hat schon mehrfach bewiesen, dass die zuverlässige Zustellung von E-Mails offenbar nicht zu seinen Stärken gehört. Jetzt werden erneut legitime Nachrichten abgewiesen, obwohl SPF und DKIM korrekt eingerichtet sind.

Das ist kein funktionierender Spam-Schutz, sondern ein Ärgernis für Absender und Empfänger. Und es ist längst nicht das erste Mal.

Vielleicht sollten sich Outlook-Nutzer ernsthaft fragen, ob es nicht an der Zeit ist, zu einem vernünftigen E-Mail-Anbieter zu wechseln.

https://heise.de/-11517776

#Microsoft #Outlook #email

Sur Clubic : "Le CNRS tourne le dos à Microsoft et bascule 50 000 boîtes mail vers le logiciel libre français.
Le CNRS abandonne Microsoft Exchange pour PARTAGE, la messagerie collaborative française de RENATER. La migration concerne 35 000 agents, mise sur le logiciel libre et la souveraineté numérique, avec à la clé de grosses économies."
Le CNRS utilisera également Zimbra, messagerie issue du monde du logiciel libre.
"L'organisme table sur environ 3,5 millions d'euros d'économies par an, une manne financière considérable".
https://www.clubic.com/actualite-637480-le-cnrs-tourne-le-dos-a-microsoft-et-bascule-50000-boites-mail-vers-le-logiciel-libre-francais.html
#esr #recherche #logicielsLibres #PARTAGE #RENATER #Zimbra #cnrs #informatique #microsoft #gafam

Bravo Hamburg. So und nicht anders!

#Microsoft #diday

https://www.ndr.de/nachrichten/hamburg/hamburgs-schulen-wollen-weg-von-microsoft-und-google,schulehh-100.html

Pour sa messagerie, le #CNRS abandonne #Microsoft pour réduire sa dépendance aux GAFAM, reprendre la maitrise de ses données et économiser 3,5 millions d’euros chaque année.

https://android-mt.ouest-france.fr/news/cnrs-microsoft-abandonne-35-millions-deuros-economises-chaque-annee/229777/

[Édit] Autre article : https://www.linformatique.org/cnrs-abandon-microsoft-exchange-messagerie-libre-partage/

Hamburgs Schulen wollen weg von Microsoft und Google

https://www.ndr.de/nachrichten/hamburg/hamburgs-schulen-wollen-weg-von-microsoft-und-google,schulehh-100.html

"Ob der Rest der Hamburger Verwaltung den Schulen folgt, ist allerdings noch unklar"

#hamburg #schulen #digitaleSouveränität #nextcloud #microsoft #google #fediLZ #Berlin #Bremen #Hessen #NordrheinWestfalen #RheinlandPfalz

ok, bit of market research time, fedi, so please boost for reach. If I were to look into making an #ESP32 based (specifically ESP32P4) #palmtop and firmware for it, implementing the #Windows #CE API surface on the #Zephyr RTOS, where V1 is a 3d printed plastic thing and V2, if funded, would be a proper nice metal case and better and more secure hardware, would anyone be interested in such a thing? The device would have a set of #PIM applications (contacts, calendar, tasks, notes, reminders), plus #MeshCore and #MeshTastic connectors and email in a unified inbox. UI/UUI design is like the #Microsoft #@Handheldpc 2000/2002 UI. V2 would (if funded) switch to an NXP i.MX RT 1170 MCU, and a proper magnesium clamshell case with an ICC/smartcard slot. #retrocomputing #portablecompuiting #windowsmobile #meshcore #LoRa #meshtastic

Well, yeah - OK, guys. That actually ain't #news, are they? We already knew that for quite a while...

#Microsoft #Microslop #Windows #OperatingSystems #SystemFailure #Italia #Milano

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Entrance to the Microsoft office (not the software, the real, physical one) of Microsoft Italy in Viale Pasubio, 21, 20154 Milano. Right under the doorbells, there's a paper sheet with a message attached. (And yes, the sexy silhouette reflected in the window pane indeed belongs to love of my live, who was completely incapable of controlling wild bursts of laughter at that very moment...)

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A close-up of the sheet attached right under the doorbells of the Microsoft office (the real one, not the software) of Microsoft Italy in Milan. It says (in Italian and English) "THE SYSTEM IS NOT WORKING WE APOLOGIZE FOR THE INCONVENIENCE"

1995. Microsoft annonce la révolution ergonomique : le Natural Keyboard !
Deux blocs de touches en éventail, une barre d'espace géante, une connexion PS/2 et trois nouvelles touches pour Windows.
Les poignets gagnent peut-être en confort. Le bureau, lui, perd définitivement la bataille du territoire. 🏔️
Bonus : il faut réapprendre à taper pour profiter d'un clavier censé faciliter la frappe. Du génie !

L'as-tu pratiqué ? Adopté ou détesté ?

#RetroComputing #Microsoft #Windows95 #Ergonomie

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Microsoft Natural Keyboard : le seul périphérique livré avec une étude d'occupation des sols.

Le CNRS quitte Microsoft et économise 3,5 millions d’euros par an - Managers

https://managers.tn/2026/11/05/le-cnrs-quitte-microsoft-et-economise-35-millions-deuros-par-an/

#GAFAM #Microsoft #Exchange #LogicielLibre #FLOSS #Zimbra

Several hundred activists occupied the construction site of a planned Microsoft data centre in Amsterdam on Friday, protesting the technology giant's alleged role in facilitating Israel's genocide in Gaza, as well as the environmental impact of artificial intelligence infrastructure.

#DataCentres #AI #Microsoft #Amsterdam #Technology #Gaza

'It would facilitate Gaza genocide': Protesters storm Microsoft planned site | Middle East Eye
https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/it-would-facilitate-gaza-genocide-protesters-storm-microsoft-planned

Bayern und Schleswig-Holstein kooperieren für digitale Souveränität | heise online https://www.heise.de/news/Bayern-und-Schleswig-Holstein-kooperieren-fuer-digitale-Souveraenitaet-11513932.html #DigitalSovereignty #OpenSource #Datenschutz #privacy #Microsoft #KRITIS #CriticalInfrastructure #Linux

Bayern und Schleswig-Holstein kooperieren für digitale Souveränität

Bayern und Schleswig-Holstein wollen gemeinsam ihre Abhängigkeit von US-Konzernen wie Microsoft reduzieren und setzen auf offene und interoperable IT-Lösungen.

https://www.heise.de/news/Bayern-und-Schleswig-Holstein-kooperieren-fuer-digitale-Souveraenitaet-11513932.html?wt_mc=sm.red.ho.mastodon.mastodon.md_beitraege.md_beitraege&utm_source=mastodon

#Datenschutz #DigitaleSouveränität #KRITIS #Linux #Microsoft #Netzpolitik #OpenSource #Wirtschaft #news

ECC #14 : Faire passer une ville au #logiciellibre, avec @nicolasvivant. Dans le 14ème épisode d’ « Entre la chaise et le clavier », Nicolas Vivant, directeur de la stratégie et de la culture numérique de la ville d’ #echirolles, détaille le processus qui a permis de faire passer peu à peu les équipements numériques de la commune d’outils propriétaires vers des #logicielslibres.
https://next.ink/podcast/ecc-14-faire-passer-une-ville-au-logiciel-libre-avec-nicolas-vivant/
#microsoft #windows #office

#TechIsShitDispatch
#Microsoft #OneDrive Sync on macOS has recently been changed so that right after you save a file being synchronized to OneDrive, the ctime and inode number of the file are unnecessarily changed.
This means that if you are editing a OneDrive-synced file in #emacs, every time you save it, it warns you that the file has been changed on disk and asks you to confirm overwriting it. 😡

Ils vivent sans Microsoft depuis 20 ans, eux : le choix payant de la #gendarmerie et du #fisc
https://www.clubic.com/actualite-635755-ils-vivent-sans-microsoft-depuis-20-ans-le-choix-payant-de-la-gendarmerie-et-du-fisc.html

Si la plupart des ministères paient chaque année leurs licences Microsoft, la gendarmerie et le fisc ont remplacé la suite #Office par des logiciels libres il y a une vingtaine d'années déjà. Un choix que la Cour des comptes cite en exemple...

72 000 ordinateurs sous #Linux, comment la gendarmerie a tourné le dos à #Microsoft

À la #DGFiP, #LibreOffice plutôt que #word pour des raisons d’argent

Sortir de #Microsoft, un pari rentable mais exigeant

Le CNRS adopte la messagerie collaborative sécurisée de Renater : PARTAGE
https://www.cnrs.fr/fr/presse/le-cnrs-adopte-la-messagerie-collaborative-securisee-de-renater-partage

Le #CNRS a souscrit à «PARTAGE», la plateforme de messagerie collaborative en mode SaaS de #RENATER. Ce choix s’inscrit dans la démarche de sortie des #GAFAM du CNRS, + particulièrement sa sortie de #Microsoft. Le passage d’1 messagerie sous Exchange à des outils libres (#Zimbra) opérée par 1 partenaire permet de gagner en souveraineté numérique. Dans le cadre de l’optimisat° des coûts informatiques dans lequel le CNRS s’est aussi engagé, cette migrat° permet également de réaliser des gains financiers, de l’ordre de 3,5 millions € /an
#LogicielsLibres

#revuedepresse de l’ @aprilorg pour la semaine 44 de l’année 2026. Au programme : #opensource #gafam #php #ia #microsoft #logicielslibres
https://www.april.org/revue-de-presse-de-l-april-pour-la-semaine-44-de-l-annee-2026

🗃️ ARCHIVE : « McDonald’s dans les cantines scolaires » (2016)
Petite expérience de pensée : et si on traitait les politiques alimentaires comme les politiques sur le numérique en France…
▶️ https://grisebouille.net/mcdonalds-dans-les-cantines-scolaires
#BD #oc #inkscape #humour #GriseBouille #GAFAM #Microsoft #numérique #McDonalds

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Ce partenariat ne partait pourtant pas gagnant, une consultation populaire pour l'alimentation dans l'enseignement primaire ayant plébiscité les AMAP et épiceries bio. Un diagramme camembert montre que la consultation populaire avait donné 95 % en faveur du bio. Ronald McDonald verse une larme à côté : « Ronald très triste. » Bien sûr, ce choix, détaché de toute considération partisane, s'est basé sur le pragmatisme le plus décomplexé. Un politicien au sourire carnassier : « Nous avons étudié les offres de McDonald's et des AMAP/épiceries bio, et en mettant en concurrence les deux propositions, nous avons choisi la plus avancée techniquement. McDonald's sont des professionnels, ils savent gérer de telles quantités et ils ont signé un contrat d'investissement ! » Des parents d'élève : « Non mais c'est n'importe quoi ! » « Arrêtez de vous planquer derrière le marché soi-disant neutre ! C'est politique comme choix ! »

What happened to #Microsoft #Windows 10 EOL this year?

It's quite astonishing how many bugs keep popping up in GitHub these days, considering it's an established service by a major tech company.

Stuff that always worked fine keeps breaking. Recently they broke creating milestones, and links to milestones are still broken in places. Now they've broken comments, where lists sometimes render with the wrong bullets, and quoting has been completely broken for several days.

We all know why of course: this is slop.

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Celeste takes a stand against genocide!

'Celeste' and 'Towerfall' Delisted From Xbox as Dev Joins Boycott

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