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Major outage hits Microsoft Office 365
- sciurus 15y agoThis also affects Live@edu.
- avolcano 15y agoYep. My college's email was out for two hours, and apparently University of Georgia's is still out (or was as of an hour or so ago).
- windsurfer 15y agoI guess it's now Office 364?
- rbanffy 15y agoIIRC, they had another outage a couple days back. It would be 363 now.
- sdizdar 15y agoAt least somebody is using it.
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- j_col 15y agoMaybe someone left on auto-update and the server restarted after a hotfix? (sorry, cheap shot I know)
- superuser2 15y agoAnd Microsoft has proven to its customers that the Cloud is a toy and not reliable enough for business-critical systems, so everything should return to the (Mcrosoft-dominated and less competitive) status quo. Maybe it's just accidental downtime. But Microsoft is not exactly competitive in the cloud computing world (unless you need to run Windows apps) - I don't think it's in their interests for this movement to succeed in the business world.
- rbanffy 15y ago> I don't think it's in their interests for this movement to succeed in the business world. I have to agree with you on that, but I don't think they would go that far to tarnish the image of other cloud providers. Right now, just about every other cloud service can offer better uptime numbers than Microsoft.
- ditojim 15y agogoogle has been proving otherwise for the last few years.
- Rickasaurus 15y agoFrom what I've heard the google cloud infrastructure hasn't exactly been a picnic either. For now I think it's best to host your own if you can.
- ditojim 15y agowhat have you heard? google apps has been pretty solid for at least the last year.
- rbanffy 15y agoGoogle App Engine has a glitch every once an then, but I host several applications there and none of them was ever affected.
- superuser2 15y ago
- barista 15y agoFinally I got to hear about Office 365 being down. Was tired of hearing AWS down, gmail down....
- rbanffy 15y agoThey have been in operation for a month or so. Give them time. With two major incidents reported since they started, they are certainly not wasting time.
- sunchild 15y agoWasn't Office 365 released a few weeks ago? Not off to a good start. I feel bad for corporate users who are stuck with that junk as their toolkit. I wish this were enough to convince people that they don't need Word or Excel – they just think they do. (They definitely don't need PowerPoint.)
- msredmond 15y agoGreat comments under that article, too.
- powertower 15y agoDatacenter's network issue affecting a small number of customers.
- ditojim 15y agojust a friendly reminder that Google Apps had a 99.984% up-time last year.
- Silhouette 15y agoPlease disclose your commercial interest if you're going to post such "friendly reminders" in HN discussions. Thanks.
- dereg 15y agoDito provides Google Apps for Business™ deployment, change management, integration, supporting services, and products to organizations of all sizes. As a leading Google Apps Authorized Reseller and a Google Referred Training Partner, we have the experience and expertise to handle your Google Apps needs. Friendly reminder indeed.
- ditojim 15y agoSo I can't state facts about a product I believe in, without disclosing my interests? I am not acting as a journalist, and I don't hide my affiliations. I disagree that I need to put a disclaimer on every comment I make. the information you quoted was very easy to find. You are the one being unfriendly.
- rbanffy 15y agoMicrosoft fans (just like any other) consider any unfavorable comment about any Microsoft product (or any favorable comment about any competitor) a personal attack. Since the company is so huge, has so many products and competes with so many companies, you have to either watch your words carefully or stop caring for their hurt feelings.
- Silhouette 15y agoI'm not a "Microsoft fan", I'm just not a "Google fan" either. As it happens, I have clients who decided to use Google Docs in recent months, and I can attest that while they may have had a server running 99.984% of the time, they certainly did not have a useful, working service 99.984% of the time for us, so I found the comment misleading. Given that the person I replied to has recently made several short posts containing obvious and often unsupported Google advocacy, I also found his posts dubiously motivated. I'd prefer not to get into some extensive meta-discussion here, I just don't want to encourage that sort of behaviour, and apparently neither do several other people who have since upvoted my original comment. Now, if you'll excuse me, I'll go back to posting more constructive things instead...