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Submission + - Microsoft Office 365 Cloud Experiencing Major Outage (office.com)

TorinEdge writes: Microsoft appears to have botched an internal Office365 cloud services rollout today, with outages confirmed up and down the West Coast of North America. Confirmed roll backs were good early omens, but in the end did not appear to be successful. Outage now moving in to its third or fourth hour, 2 hours by confirmation from Microsoft's status page (https://status.office.com/) and official Twitter feed (https://twitter.com/MSFT365Status). Symptoms may include: All 365-related services flaking out, borking, alternately approving logins and confirming they definitely do not exist.

Comment Supporting compatible versions (Score 1) 97

I constantly have to deal with various projects having issues with forward and backward compatibility issues within Python3. Code written for python 3.2 doesn't necessarily work on 3.4, 3.6, or 3.8; and the reverse is also true. Python's success came from the stability of Python 2.7, but the recent shift in the project community doesn't lend itself to long term viability once people realize how painful it is to keep up. I honestly think this is why commercial entities like RHEL and SLES were/are hesitant with their Python3 support. Just because the Python Community wants to move fast and break things lately doesn't mean commercial entities want to. Managing Python runtimes is reminding me more and more of the same flaws that Ruby and Java have.

Comment Consolidation of licensing (Score 1) 79

They're healthy because they're continuing to raise licensing fees so that only a handful of commercial entities can afford to stay legal (who are ultimately passing it along to paying customers $ or time). There aren't a lot of small streaming radio stations anymore because the licensing makes it impractical and the licensing entities who are the go-betweens to the RIAA keep going out of business because again raising rates kills off the small streamers who have been their customer base.

Comment Phones are the new used car (Score 1) 234

1. Your phone costs as much as your first used car
2. When a piece breaks, you try your hardest to replace it
3. They are designed to fail in progressively shorter timeframes

Not like a car:
1. Car manufacturers send recall notices and pay the shop bill to correct critical product defects for the life of the vehicle.

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