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Microsoft's Outlook and Skype Are Facing Outages (theregister.co.uk)
People from all corners of the world are reporting connectivity issues when using Microsoft Skype and Office 365's Outlook, they said on Wednesday. The users are seeing a "Throttled" error message when attempting to access either of the aforementioned services, they said. From a report: The weird text box pops up in the chat software and cloud-backed email client, preventing people from sending messages, and talking to contacts. This is, according to Microsoft, due to a botched update to Azure's backend authentication systems. The internal upgrade was introduced as its engineers brought servers knocked out by storms in Texas back online. Outlook Web Access is said to be unaffected. According to mailing list chatter among IT bods and other sysadmins seen by The Register in the past hour, as well as tweets and Reddit threads, the outage is hitting businesses and subscribers at least throughout America, Canada, the UK, and Europe. Microsoft Office 365 tweeted just before 3 p.m. ET that the company has rolled back an update that was causing the throttling. It is testing to be sure that the problem is resolved.
Renaming to Office 363 now.
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Hey, let's all be dependent on MS to host ALLz OF OUR BIZNIZ!!! What a great idea. What could possibly go wrong.
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I couldn't tell that the last day or so was any different than any other day. It's always laggy and sluggish and stalls opening calendars.
I'm more productive at work now that I'm forced to use Office 365's Outlook. Because I check email less because it's so incredibly shitty.
Velociraptor = Distiraptor / Timeraptor
So, in the middle of restoring a major outage, they decided they'd sneak in an upgrade? You have to be joking me.
This is IT 101, guys ... don't change two things at the same time, and don't piggy back on an unplanned outage to put in upgrades.
Is this the quality of Microsoft's cloud? If it is, I'm not impressed.
Shit like that will get you fired, and deservedly so. I fear Microsoft is promising way more than it can deliver if this is how they're restoring service after an outage.
Have they considered using Linux servers instead?
I've abandoned my search for truth; now I'm just looking for some useful delusions.
Anybody with at least a cursory understanding how MS makes software and provides services is only surprised this has not happened earlier. Apparently they have now ensnared enough customers that they can stop trying extra hard (well, extra hard for MS levels).
Most ACs are not even worth the keystrokes to insult them. Be generically insulted by this and ignored otherwise.
Well, I guess it isn't just home Windows 10 users that get buggy/broken untested updates pushed to us.
Microsoft has never been known for quality, but they sure seem to eat their own dog food anyway.
Not much of a consolation but at least there is a chuckle to be had.
Meanwhile, I've been using my locally installed copy of Office 2010 without any trouble at all. I'm even blissfully unaware of all the new and innovative features of Office in The Cloud.