And down goes Microsoft's cloud...

[Mendalla]

If you happen to use any Microsoft services like Outlook.com, they are having serious issues today. My company is heavily impacted but so are some of their consumer services. Haven't heard any timelines for fixing things, yet. This is, of course, a problem with the cloud (not AI, just the cloud): An outage can spread quite easily across a range of services.

 

[Mendalla]

Canadian Press story on the outage:

MSN

 

[Luce NDs]

This technology is failsafe you know ...

And only nothing is perfect when you hake all the physical away ... you have pure abstract ... material that just isn't there ... a good place to store clear thought! It is like initiation ... or so it went ...

 

[Mendalla]

This technology is failsafe you know ...

You know, that's what Microsoft and other cloud vendors (Amazon and Google are the other two big ones) keep claiming but the reality is that they keep having outages. So apparently they operate under a rather different definition of "failsafe" than I do.