Wonder how many “Junior Coders” are shitting their pants today.
They probably pushed AI slop code into production, so no one knows what broke.
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.
It’s still down. 9 hours later. Don’t worry. It’s only everything.
GTFO of the cloud, people.
This is not good because I use Outlook for college. I noticed that it was down when I tried to look at my emails on my phone before a class. Microsoft sucks as a company at this point, and they replaced their engineers with Ai. How could they possibly have thought that was a good idea. Microsoft is in an Ai psychosis or something quite clearly. Hopefully they get the services back up soon, because I for one need it for school
Experienced this at my job today. Im glad that now my only experience with this slop is just the workplace😑😑
We’re continuing our work to isolate the issue affecting server availability, as well as other workstreams.
Microsoft:
Defender is acting up too
It’s almost like having your office software as a service it’s a bad idea
No, no, see management can direct their direct reports to call Microsoft and say “please escalate, urgent, unable to work” and the Telephone Support Representative who totally has power and authority to do something about this will get right on it. Oh, and if they don’t, nothing will happen. And if you threaten to leave Microsoft for someone else? They’ll laugh and laugh and laugh… “Good luck,” will be the last thing you hear.
Hooray.
Hoping that a few companies decide to migrate to free offline solutions after that
Hahaha.
Ha.
Hahahahaha.
Yeah no. No one ever got fired for going with Microsoft. It’s costly to migrate, and you’d get fired for a 20 minute outage.
The corporate bullshit language is strong in microsoft:
“We’re opening all available pathways to restore service, as our actions taken thus far have not provided the anticipated relief.”
“We’re aggressively pursuing all pathways to reduce impact,”
“We’ve tried nothing and we’re all out of ideas”
the reply is very human.
That translates to
We have no fucking idea what’s wrong, please send help
Copilot is down, and they fired all their engineers. They don’t know what to do, because their “brain” is part of (and likely caused) this outage lol
Oh no, not Copilot!
But I don’t actually know how to do anything! I ain’t gonna learn shit on my own, that’s just silly.
sooner or later, theres going to be an outage in their infrastructure or sloperating system that takes days or weeks to fix, because they have completely lost grasp of their codebase. this is the real existential risk
Game developer Jonathan Blow gave a great talk with a dramatic title in 2019 before the slopocalypse in which he gripes about buggy software and the ever increasing complexity and how it causes knowledge loss. It has aged. I’m sure the same talk today would be quite a bit different. It’s still relevant.
We might already be there.
We crossed that line years ago. Windows development has just been layers of paint for years. Exchange has been on life support even though it underpins 365. The only Office updates have been style and icons (ok, and integration with OneDrive, but they still haven’t implemented it for PowerPoint, shared editing still only works with word and excel). OneDrive is just SharePoint with a client app. Teams is also just SharePoint.
There are no software engineers at Microsoft any more.
Could even be this one based on how it’s going
It’s already happened, Halloween 2025ish? Front door was fully down for hours, and when it came back up people weren’t allowed to make changes, and when people were allowed to, they had a 45 minute delay before they could take effect. Even now it takes awhile for the changes to go live.
Its okay though, think of the money saved from not employing someone who knows what to do!
Yet for some ungodly reason, teams still works. Fucking microsoft, can’t even fuck up correctly…
I’ve been sick most of the week and was surprised to see my missed email log was only 451 emails.
Then the number didn’t go up.
I’m in for some hurt when it comes back.
Speak for yourself, I have only been able to access teams from my phone all day and it’s been great honestly 😂
You are today’s lucky winner! I’m so jealous. They pivoted to trying to do everything over teams and… well, that ended predictably poorly. I just dipped lol, networks so hosed nobody noticed.
Teams costs extra, so it’s on a different system.
Sudden burst of productivity documented at many companies
its friday in aussie, everyone fucking off to the pub
Holiday in NZ
