I just want to get a sense of how many this outage has touched. I think a lot of us in academia are just fine because google dominates education.
Consider what a google outage would look like.
@futurebird in the UK most universities use MS for mail and many other things.. We are completely dependent 😢 (but why did we choose to be dependent on a US company? I have no idea)
@futurebird Yeah the chair of this meeting I'm in (because of course the chaos dominated the first five minutes of it) was casually saying "I'm fine, I've got Gmail." As if this could never happen to Google. :)
Nov 13, 2026, 11:27 AMI just got this email from my kid's school (NYC public school)
> Good morning,
> It has come to our attention that there is a systemwide email outage - no DOE employee has been able to access or respond to emails since late yesterday morning.
@futurebird UNC runs on Outlook ...
"subscribe to incident"
um. no thanks. I'm good. I would like to please block "the incident" thank you
@futurebird I don't use either 🙃
Happy with my own mail server.
@futurebird My wife's in academia, but her MS account seems to be fine for some reason 😂
@futurebird at my institution, a worldwide leading IT school, place 11 or 12 or so, we use Microsoft. And it bleeds my heart whenever I enter "outlook.com" in the navigator...
Well, yesterday evening it was a good feeling :)