alt Hacker NewsI dislike Microsoft as much as the next guy, but many businesses impacted by these outages are completely innocent and don't deserve these consequences.
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azalemeth • yesterday at 7:43 PM
That's a very painful lesson in "the cloud is just someone else's computer" to a crowd that normally are exposed to ideas like "software and IT are not our core competency"
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SoftTalker • yesterday at 8:00 PM
It's a shame there isn't a well-standardized, free and open protocol for delivering email that could be run on inexpensive modestly provisioned hardware.
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fock • yesterday at 7:50 PM
their bosses decided for the cloud and they pretended not to care!
TaLiTr • yesterday at 7:44 PM
If your system keeps people alive by relying on 100% Microsoft uptime, maybe they deserve some blame?
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I mean, they made us take down our departmental run email (presumably postfix) and forced us to make them aliases to university-wide exchange (with crappy support for open source mail clients no less). So I don't think my org is Innocent here...