And at 40$ per employee per month, with all those employees now without access to the company (auth is not working so internal apps are going to be dead too), 50% of that for one month covers less than 25 minutes of downtime if your employees work 38 hours per week for 5000$ on average (and I do hope they make at least 2x more, since this is before tax).

But no worries, getting the entire month off justifies about 50 minutes of company downtime.

Besides: why worry? Claude code is down too, so your now cheaper techs can't do anything either.

The loss for a random due to MS software at this point is about 1400$ per seat (but probably at least double that) and rising.

Which is why every manager should now realize that their microsoft contract can never work as a valid disaster recovery option.