Friends, the first thing I did this morning was check on Microsoft’s recovery efforts. Well, they seem to have made significant progress overnight in their recovery efforts, but it’s still not 100% back up yet. I’ve had some email come through myself, so I have hope their work will hold as North America comes online. I’m sending good vibes to my former Microsoft colleagues on this brutal day.
I’m also seeing discussion on things like “why should one company have the power or ability to bring down 2/3s of business emails?” It is an important question. The answer goes into the nature of our economic system and is propensity towards consolidation. So, it’s a systemic issue. It’s millions of separate business decisions that led here. I am not sure that breaking up Microsoft would’ve prevented this.
Anyway, a lot to consider as Microsoft, and millions of businesses, dig out from this mess.
I hope your Friday is going well. Or at least better than the devs at Microsoft.
There seems to be a growing risk of this sort of total international service failure. Businesses probably need a fall-back position/ plan.