Probably my bet is some of the experienced hands that could have prevented this issue or fixed it quickly were let go, replaced with AI that doesn't have their experience.
If this is the case, id expect some of these folks to be brought back with an apology and additional salary.
it looks to me like it's authentication related, and I know from talking to people about vulnerabilities that don't become public that the 365 authentication systems can behave in quite "surprising" ways.
Some serious news said "problems with servers, that big computers doing things". So big computers are busy more then usual calculating things... So maybe before they was calculating some simple things like small numbers like '4' or '42', don't remember which one they are not using anymore since roughly the same timeframe :) Or maybe MS also had their own "easy numbers" deployed and "calculations" are suddenly much more involved ? Who knows ? ;)
Or maybe they deployed new version of femous Exchange ? "New" good, right ? ;)
Or, as peoples already sugessted, no more human knowhow in the loop ?
Or maybe they get mad about Linus from YT making yesterday video about world without Windows ? "You want world without Windows ? Ok, we give you taste of world without a Windows ! But look your Windows is already at version 365 so we just power down Outlook for few hours ! He he he" ;)
After MS fired or is in the middle of getting rid of their human employees since AGI is here, Claude is doing such a very good job at restoring everything by itself.
But surely we don't need humans at Microsoft maintaining highly critical software any more right? /s
Just last month they laid off 60,000 workers due to AI https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c6m24klyjr8no
Probably my bet is some of the experienced hands that could have prevented this issue or fixed it quickly were let go, replaced with AI that doesn't have their experience.
If this is the case, id expect some of these folks to be brought back with an apology and additional salary.
It has to be this, or a hack/data breach of absolutely biblical proportions and they're stalling for time.
Their updates have nothing of substance whatsoever, I've never seen anything like this.
They're claiming it's not cybersecurity related.
it looks to me like it's authentication related, and I know from talking to people about vulnerabilities that don't become public that the 365 authentication systems can behave in quite "surprising" ways.
60,000 people looking for new jobs and not really caring if the video call interview on their work laptop might be North Korea.
https://archive.ph/xvaPo
I mean not a bad link, but is the BBC paywalling articles now in some way I'm not aware of?
They have been recently
https://www.niemanlab.org/2025/06/the-bbc-is-introducing-a-p...
I see. Didn't see this in Australia (since it's aimed at the US) but it's good to know.
Let's guess what happened...
MS hacked ?
Some serious news said "problems with servers, that big computers doing things". So big computers are busy more then usual calculating things... So maybe before they was calculating some simple things like small numbers like '4' or '42', don't remember which one they are not using anymore since roughly the same timeframe :) Or maybe MS also had their own "easy numbers" deployed and "calculations" are suddenly much more involved ? Who knows ? ;)
Or maybe they deployed new version of femous Exchange ? "New" good, right ? ;)
Or, as peoples already sugessted, no more human knowhow in the loop ?
Or maybe they get mad about Linus from YT making yesterday video about world without Windows ? "You want world without Windows ? Ok, we give you taste of world without a Windows ! But look your Windows is already at version 365 so we just power down Outlook for few hours ! He he he" ;)
Seems like this week we're all learning why blind trust in a centrally managed, pay-for-play cloud is a bad friggin' idea.
I'm sure lessons will not be learned... So sad...
Copilot says no.
Not being able to access outlook email inbox is slightly annoying. Remind me to download vouchers next time.
After MS fired or is in the middle of getting rid of their human employees since AGI is here, Claude is doing such a very good job at restoring everything by itself.
But surely we don't need humans at Microsoft maintaining highly critical software any more right? /s
Microsoft needs money to invest in AI. That is why they fired those people.
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