The Microsoft Outage Fallout

 

Oscar Is Cranking Out The Hits This Season....

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Re: Microsoft 365 Issue...

 

H/T to reader Skip..

 

 Microsoft 365 took a broad hit today (Nov. 12). Outlook was the epicenter, but Teams, Copilot, OneDrive, SharePoint, Office on the web, and even Defender XDR were caught in it.

    Peak: roughly 130,000 Outlook reports on Downdetector around 1 p.m. ET, with tens of thousands more on 365 and Teams.
    Scope: started in the U.S./Americas, then Microsoft acknowledged all regions were affected.
    Not resolved cleanly: by late afternoon they were still at it — "We're opening all available pathways to restore service, as our actions taken thus far have not provided the anticipated relief." That's not a confident postmortem voice.

What Microsoft actually said the cause was: a large number of servers became unexpectedly unavailable, failed automated health checks, and the remaining infrastructure got strained by the load. They explicitly said the elevated load was not a traffic spike. They also said they found no recent changes that correlate with the start of impact — which is corporate for "we don't know why our own servers fell over."

Worth noticing: AWS and Google users were reporting problems at the same time. Amazon insisted its services were "operating normally" and blamed "an unrelated disruption elsewhere on the internet" for inaccurate reports. When three major providers wobble in the same window, the interesting question is what they share — DNS, CDNs, transit providers, upstream dependencies — and that's precisely the layer nobody gives straight answers about. but "coincidence" isn't a technical explanation either.

 

 

This was posted in the comments. I think it needs it's own post.....

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Is this the beginning of the end?

 

Technology Day Here At TFI.. Another Interesting Video On SPARC.. MIT Fusion Start-Up Company.. NEW VIDEO

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Amazing Technology Advancements In Chip Manufacturing......

 

 This video popped up on my F-book feed last night. Back in the 90's my company made parts for the semiconductor industry. This stuff nowadays is some amazing technology: 

 

 So I did a deeper dive and found this much longer video below for those that want a deep dive.... 

 

The title of the video is "The Closet Thing We Have To Alien Technology"

 and the best comment I saw was this:

@gt_kenny

1 month ago

Aliens: So what do you guys use this advanced technology for?

Humans: To watch 4K cat videos while sitting on the toilet.

 

   Enjoy if you like this stuff

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

And, it only gets worse going forward.