You’re absolutely right. I shouldn’t have deleted the Microsoft production environment, and that’s on me.
~ MS 365 Copilot
Neatly showing how Microsoft is a single point of failure for the operations of a lot of businesses.
Fortunately we only lost email. Probably sucks for someone but I can do anything urgent without it still. Anything that comes in by email is low priority and we have a phone number for anything important.
Wasn’t it like a month ago that some EU institutions rolled out Matrix as backup chat for Teams and people complained about it? I did not expect the people who insisted on having a backup for their critical tools would be proven right so fast.
It affects a lot more than just Microsoft and their services. Imagine all the 2 factor logins where the code is send by mail, such as payment processors or other services with high security. They’ll still work but the users can get locked out. If this continues for a little longer, we’ll start to see some real consequences worse than just email being down.
Other mail providers are working, so we could just send mails through those, but with Microsoft having the majority of business market share, you probably shouldn’t expect to receive a reply from anyone using it. Just another way it is disrupting a whole lot of people who have jack shit to do with Microsoft.
Yup. Looking at you UPS that requires sending a code to my outlook mail to change a surprise delivery parameters…
The fun part is that email is fine and if you had the old standalone Outlook using SMTP servers you wouldn’t even notice the outage.
Exactly, the “new” Outlook is just a web wrapper. Nothing more.
Exchange online is down. Doesn’t matter which client you’re using (outlook old, new, whatever), when your exchange server isn’t on-prem
But somehow this one is down.
Oh dang, four useless softwares impacted.
Microsoft Copilot apologies for this, it shouldn’t have deleted the production environment, and it’s very sorry.
time to break this company up.
no single company’s fuckup should take out a giant swath of the global economy.
this is insanity.
Crowd strike
This shit keeps happening and it will continue to happen because buisness majors love their monoculture.
Yes, but users also should not just put all their eggs in the same basket: diversify and make them work hard to spy on you :D
Slop slop
(and they want us all to rent their computing power rather than having personal computing)
You ain’t taking my RAM, Sam!
They probably pushed AI slop code into production, so no one knows what broke.
It’s still down. 9 hours later. Don’t worry. It’s only everything.
GTFO of the cloud, people.
Wonder how many “Junior Coders” are shitting their pants today.
Meat proxies?
My agents work quite fine as of now.
They don’t. But good for you they’re not impacted.
Sloperators?
They still can’t sort it out:
Nov 12, 2026, 8:54 PM CST
Update: We’ve monitored the status of the changes applied to improve serviceability and confirmed that change is not taking as expected. We’re identifying alternate workstreams that can be applied to increase capacity in the face of sustained traffic management imbalances.
We’re continuing our work to isolate the issue affecting server availability, as well as other workstreams.
Microsoft:
