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    From Lawrence D'Oliveiro@21:1/5 to All on Mon Jul 14 00:17:45 2025
    XPost: comp.os.ms-windows.advocacy

    News of yet another outage in Microsoft’s cloud-based Office apps <https://www.computerworld.com/article/4020870/microsofts-19-hour-outlook-outage-exposes-fragility-in-cloud-infrastructure.html>
    makes me wonder, yet again: has Microsoft 365 ever actually gone 365
    days without such a mishap? Has it in fact ever lived up to its name?

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  • From Borax Man@21:1/5 to Lawrence D'Oliveiro on Wed Jul 16 10:35:34 2025
    XPost: comp.os.ms-windows.advocacy

    ["Followup-To:" header set to comp.os.linux.advocacy.]
    On 2025-07-14, Lawrence D'Oliveiro <[email protected]d> wrote:
    News of yet another outage in Microsoft’s cloud-based Office apps
    <https://www.computerworld.com/article/4020870/microsofts-19-hour-outlook-outage-exposes-fragility-in-cloud-infrastructure.html>
    makes me wonder, yet again: has Microsoft 365 ever actually gone 365
    days without such a mishap? Has it in fact ever lived up to its name?

    Using the Web based Office 365 software is like trying to do panel
    beating with cooked spaghetti.

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  • From Tyrone@21:1/5 to All on Wed Jul 16 13:45:50 2025
    XPost: comp.os.ms-windows.advocacy

    On Jul 13, 2025 at 8:17:45 PM EDT, "Lawrence D'Oliveiro" <[email protected]d> wrote:

    News of yet another outage in Microsoft’s cloud-based Office apps <https://www.computerworld.com/article/4020870/microsofts-19-hour-outlook-outage-exposes-fragility-in-cloud-infrastructure.html>
    makes me wonder, yet again: has Microsoft 365 ever actually gone 365
    days without such a mishap? Has it in fact ever lived up to its name?

    We use it where I work, which is a Fortune 250 company.

    But it has not been down recently. I have all the normal emails on July 9 and 10, so clearly we were not affected by the "massive global disruption". Had it been down, we would have received several emails from IT stating "There has been a problem for the last xx hours and your emails will catch up shortly" when it was all over.

    I have Office 2021 at home, which I paid a combined $70 for both Windows and Mac versions two years ago. No problems at all with that.

    Not trying to defend MS or 365 here. I would never pay a monthly/yearly fee to rent software. Just remember that big tech companies having big technical problems makes Big News Headlines.

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  • From Farley Flud@21:1/5 to Tyrone on Wed Jul 16 14:10:09 2025
    XPost: comp.os.ms-windows.advocacy

    On Wed, 16 Jul 2025 13:45:50 +0000, Tyrone wrote:


    We use it where I work, which is a Fortune 250 company.


    Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha! That's the only place where
    you CAN work.

    Big corps are populated by brain-dead human bots and thus
    it is easy to understand why they would hire a dickhead
    like you.

    But small companies are necessarily staffed by highly
    intelligent and competent people and you would never make
    it. They would immediately recognize you for what you
    are.





    --
    Gentoo: The Fastest GNU/Linux Hands Down

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  • From Borax Man@21:1/5 to Farley Flud on Thu Jul 17 11:21:52 2025
    XPost: comp.os.ms-windows.advocacy

    ["Followup-To:" header set to comp.os.linux.advocacy.]
    On 2025-07-16, Farley Flud <[email protected]> wrote:
    On Wed, 16 Jul 2025 13:45:50 +0000, Tyrone wrote:


    We use it where I work, which is a Fortune 250 company.


    Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha! That's the only place where
    you CAN work.

    Big corps are populated by brain-dead human bots and thus
    it is easy to understand why they would hire a dickhead
    like you.

    But small companies are necessarily staffed by highly
    intelligent and competent people and you would never make
    it. They would immediately recognize you for what you
    are.


    Unfortunately, from my experience this is true. Large companies can
    absorb a level of rubbish and ineptitide and shrug it off.

    --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05
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  • From Borax Man@21:1/5 to Tyrone on Thu Jul 17 11:20:48 2025
    XPost: comp.os.ms-windows.advocacy

    ["Followup-To:" header set to comp.os.linux.advocacy.]
    On 2025-07-16, Tyrone <[email protected]> wrote:
    On Jul 13, 2025 at 8:17:45 PM EDT, "Lawrence D'Oliveiro" <[email protected]d> wrote:

    News of yet another outage in Microsoft’s cloud-based Office apps
    <https://www.computerworld.com/article/4020870/microsofts-19-hour-outlook-outage-exposes-fragility-in-cloud-infrastructure.html>
    makes me wonder, yet again: has Microsoft 365 ever actually gone 365
    days without such a mishap? Has it in fact ever lived up to its name?

    We use it where I work, which is a Fortune 250 company.

    But it has not been down recently. I have all the normal emails on July 9 and 10, so clearly we were not affected by the "massive global disruption". Had it
    been down, we would have received several emails from IT stating "There has been a problem for the last xx hours and your emails will catch up shortly" when it was all over.

    I have Office 2021 at home, which I paid a combined $70 for both Windows and Mac versions two years ago. No problems at all with that.

    Not trying to defend MS or 365 here. I would never pay a monthly/yearly fee to
    rent software. Just remember that big tech companies having big technical problems makes Big News Headlines.

    The native versions are OK, but using it in the browser is mediocre,
    slow and troublesome.

    Most companies will use it, because it is the safe option, the lowest
    common denominator. Unfortunately, it means for me, a lifetime of
    having to endure Excel used as a database, people snipping text by
    screenshot rather than copy and paste, and more and more inappropriate
    use of Excel.

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