AI is an IOU to technical debt that will never ever be paid and is basically going to cripple a lot of businesses.
I know that this is likely a cascade of AI reliance, technical incompetence, and horrible management culture at Microsoft, but:
Some of me is thinking that they probably can’t communicate with each other effectively because their outlook is also down.
The shitty, over-complicated, over-integrated, too heavy and inter-linked product design that MS has used to force and keep businesses locked into “their” ecosystem is coming home to roost.
Serves the industry right for trusting these fuckers for 30+ years.
I really can’t imagine a Microsoft developer using Teams or Outlook. They would immediatly quit, if they would know what a shit show they are producing.
My only explanation is a MS worker, vibe coding through the day, never looking at the finished product, letting AI run some tests and calling it a day.
You mean we gotta use teams and they don’t? (Teams works)
There’s already a Wikipedia page for it! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2026_Microsoft_outage
Is this seriously still going on?? That might be the most long running outage like this which I’m aware of
Maybe quit trying to figure out what the vibe coder did and ask the ai to do it from scratch again, this time with the prompt ‘make no mistakes’?
I jest, of course. But I can’t imagine a world with software systems that on one understands.
They are currently trying this over and over again, hence the “not going as expected”.
4000 lines of repeated and nested functions and bullshit.
Could we just leave it off for the rest of the year? Heck, shut down google, AWS and meta too. We needed this
Microsoft is doing this to avoid a situation where emails which have been sent - such as from a Gmail account or something else unaffected - still ultimately arrive when things are fixed.
Ah well there’s the problem. Maybe Microsoft should work on making sure the emails arrive rather than avoiding that.
Seems like they forgot the structure of their sentence halfway through, and ended up with the opposite meaning.
Copilot is down so you’ll have to forgive them for needing to remember how to write on their own
Sometimes you start talking and just figure out where you are going when you get there.
Microsoft says Copilot is having difficulties with resolving the issues.
They shouldn’t have cancelled that Anthropic subscription
Your email won’t find me
Sharepoint and teams still work at my job and I’m devastated
