Microsoft Outlook, Exchange and Teams calendar are down worldwide

Post by ffsm8 » Mon, Nov 25, 2024, 2:57 PM UTC

Terretta wrote: post #39

mrweasel wrote: post #25

Earlier quoted context omitted.

EuroNews is generally pretty respectable, but it is sad that their cookie/tracking banner isn't compliant. Equally sad that no one at EuroNews management have seen the banner and though: 870 partners seems like 867 to many. Arguably EuroNews is a strange source for news like this, but companies like Microsoft and Amazon are terrible about communicating outages directly.

On the contrary, it seems compliant? The link to continue without agreeing is right at the top with the warning, and not buried somewhere in settings (and especially not sending you to each of the 800 to opt out individually like so many firms helpfully offer).

Post by latentcall » Mon, Nov 25, 2024, 5:30 PM UTC

Post by mrweasel » Mon, Nov 25, 2024, 5:55 PM UTC

Terretta wrote: post #39

mrweasel wrote: post #25

Earlier quoted context omitted.

EuroNews is generally pretty respectable, but it is sad that their cookie/tracking banner isn't compliant. Equally sad that no one at EuroNews management have seen the banner and though: 870 partners seems like 867 to many. Arguably EuroNews is a strange source for news like this, but companies like Microsoft and Amazon are terrible about communicating outages directly.

On the contrary, it seems compliant? The link to continue without agreeing is right at the top with the warning, and not buried somewhere in settings (and especially not sending you to each of the 800 to opt out individually like so many firms helpfully offer).

Post by [deleted] » Mon, Nov 25, 2024, 7:28 PM UTC

mkl wrote: post #3

> With your agreement, we and our 870 partners use cookies or similar technologies to store, access, and process personal data !! Surely there's a more respectable source. Anyway, Outlook is working fine for me here in NZ. This news seems to be a day old: https://duckduckgo.com/?q=MO941162

Post by larsnystrom » Tue, Nov 26, 2024, 7:03 AM UTC

dec0dedab0de wrote: post #14

pastage wrote: post #11

I understand why it is still popular, I first used it at my current job and for the life of me I do not understand how people put up with it. It is one of the worst applications I use in my daily work life.

Almost 20 years ago, I remember getting in an argument with a new manager who was pushing for the company to use Exchange “because that’s what businesses do” Then about 5 years ago something similar happened at another company when I was against 365. Their argument was “I know it sucks, but that’s microsoft’s preferred way” There are a lot of people with decision making power that base their decisions solely on marke…