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Microsoft Says It Is Working On Fix After Users Report Skype, Outlook, Xbox Live Outages (foxnews.com)

Posted by msmash on from the outage-report dept.

An anonymous reader shares a report: A huge outage hit Microsoft services Tuesday morning, with users across the globe experiencing problems accessing Outlook, Xbox and Skype. Users were unable to log onto the Outlook email client via mobile devices and received an error message when trying to access the desktop version of the service. Users also reportedly experienced problems with Microsoft's Xbox and Skype services. Microsoft acknowledged the Xbox issues in a statement posted to its Xbox Live status page. "Another issue has been identified that is causing problems for some members signing in to Xbox Live. The team is working to resolve the issue as quickly as possible. Thanks for your patience," it said.

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  1. CIA Connection by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Given that Wikileaks has revealed this morning that the CIA receives transcripts of Skype chats, I wonder if there is a connection.

    1. Re:CIA Connection by JcMorin · · Score: 1

      https://cdn.meme.am/cache/inst...

  2. Damn. by fahrbot-bot · · Score: 1

    ... users across the globe experiencing problems accessing Outlook, Xbox and Skype.
    Users were unable to log onto the Outlook email client ...

    Damn. I thought it was a new feature.

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    1. Re:Damn. by reboot246 · · Score: 2

      Agreed. I would consider them being down a blessing, not a problem.

  3. Azure...? by Streetlight · · Score: 3, Informative

    I'm assuming these Software as a Service systems are running on some kind of Azure system run by Microsoft. Not good publicity. Amazon's AWS had problems last week. So much for cloud-only storage of important, immediately needed data or services.

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    1. Re:Azure...? by Streetlight · · Score: 1

      My point involved "cloud-only" storage for important, immediately needed data or services. One of the first principles of backup is multiple methods of storage and availability. Cloud storage and availability is pretty reliable, but can go down as can local equipment. It's even less likely both will go down at the same time. If the local electricity goes out and there is no power backup, including for the carrier's Internet, there's nothing one can do except wait. It sounds like cloud based Azure and AWS don't have more than one storage and/or access point, i.e., multiple, accessible backups.

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    2. Re:Azure...? by guruevi · · Score: 1

      It sounds like cloud based Azure and AWS don't have more than one storage and/or access point, i.e., multiple, accessible backups.

      Both Microsoft and Amazon's idea of "backup" is just replicating the thing to multiple data-centers and using short DNS timeouts to be able to move services from datacenter to datacenter. It's a very cheap/badly implemented method of HA, not backup.

      Case in point: O365 does not have point-in-time backups and yes, they occasionally have a corrupted mailbox or folder that has replicated in it's corrupt state across the globe. Why: they're running Windows and Exchange on a variation of a 1993 file system - they have simply not accounted for the fact that disks occasionally return corruption that passes the hardware ECC tests.

      Same goes for Amazon, it's a well known issue among it's customers that you can occasionally have a volume go bad even across multiple 'replication zones', the same reason though, hardware only has limited error recovery, the "right" 2 bits go wrong and your data is toast.

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  4. So Amazon fired that guy and he landed a new job? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1

    N/T

  5. Yep...Shocker... by TheOuterLinux · · Score: 2, Interesting

    You'd think people would learn by now...Buy a decent computer, wipe it out, and install Linux. Everything they build is spyware anyway. It wouldn't surprise me if they tried to implement the AI they've been working on in someway and it cause every popular communication service they have to crash. Think about that. Out of everything else they do, those platforms crash. Damn you Cortona and you're thirst for gossip! (Shakes fist) Women drivers!...Imagine what happens when that AI gets "sick" and everyone blindly keeps being sucked into Mucro$oft's cloud computing plans. Jesus...

  6. Re:So Amazon fired that guy and he landed a new jo by Motherfucking+Shit · · Score: 1

    I hope not, they just spent millions of dollars training him. You don't fire an asset like that.

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  7. Re: Linux crashes after updates too. by TheOuterLinux · · Score: 1

    Unless your smart enough like me to make your own distro. I've got PAE version of kernel 4.10 running just fine on a 2008 MacBook and a 2010 Acer Aspire One ZG5. I can't help that there are 64-bit, eye candy dummies out there in the world. No crashes after updates. Sounds like and Ubuntu problem.