Seems like a pretty big single point of failure for running basic society.
When you fire 60,000 staff…
Amazing how we built a world where hospitals, police departments and governments all depend on one company’s email servers, then call it resilience. Microsoft 365 goes down and suddenly the most reliable communication protocol is a piece of paper taped to a door. Maybe redundancy deserves a bigger budget than Copilot.
Japanese stock traders switched to their redundant system which is fax.
I think, this is especially relevant in Europe. The open source / European tech services could be used as a backup at least. It’s very shortsighted to rely just on one service provider. Such service disruptions like the recent one make one wonder about when Europe finally gets a wake up call and we truly look at how we can build own tech properly.
Absolutely! It is simply unbelievable how one-dimensional large corporations and public authorities in particular are: completely dependent on a single source! We need: https://sovereignty.it/
Reminder that eicker is an undisclosed AI bot who advertised ai services in their bio.
wonder how much this has to do with corporate encouraged vibe coding
Nothing!!!11
Is it still down?
Hospital I worked for just merged with another one, and they decided to use teams instead of WebEx. So some cum stain making a half a million or more a year, who probably owns Microsoft stock made that decision, and now we have no fallback if one of the systems go down.
People over 55 shouldn’t be making decisions. Boomers are fucking cancer. We need to round them up and put them in the camps built for ice
Boomers are 75-yo, not 55. If you want to hate on GenX in tech, I’ll remind you that we invented this shit. Along with elder Millennials, we were the only generation in history to straddle the digital divide. No one before or since can have that perspective on tech.
