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Microsoft Outlook, Exchange and Teams calendar are down worldwide

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Re: Microsoft Outlook, Exchange and Teams calendar are down worldwide

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Twitter is unusable if you don’t have an account. Only thing that works is direct link to tweets. I imagine there are plenty of privacy conscious people on this platform who don’t have social media accounts so a link to a Twitter account is pretty much useless for them.

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Re: Microsoft Outlook, Exchange and Teams calendar are down worldwide

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Twitter is unusable if you don’t have an account. Only thing that works is direct link to tweets. I imagine there are plenty of privacy conscious people on this platform who don’t have social media accounts so a link to a Twitter account is pretty much useless for them.

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I got banned within 10 minutes when I tried that. (Twitter's TOS says I'm no longer allowed to create accounts.)

Re: Microsoft Outlook, Exchange and Teams calendar are down worldwide

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Twitter is unusable if you don’t have an account. Only thing that works is direct link to tweets. I imagine there are plenty of privacy conscious people on this platform who don’t have social media accounts so a link to a Twitter account is pretty much useless for them.

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Hey, privacy is a vald concern. I could just as easily say 'When you say "privacy doesn't matter" most of us hear "moron".

Try being a bit more civil next time.

Re: Microsoft Outlook, Exchange and Teams calendar are down worldwide

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By default, the posts are all out of order. Top 5 posts are from 2022, 2023, 2020, Jul 19 (Crowdstrike), Jul 18. (in that specific order) Not really useful for the 'latest' going on. Twitter used to be able to do that, was super useful to get the pulse of a current event.

It's a countermeasure to intensive scraping by bots for AI purposes that was costing them a lot of server costs.

Re: Microsoft Outlook, Exchange and Teams calendar are down worldwide

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More respectable source - https://x.com/MSFT365Status

How do you evaluate respectability in this case? The icon that meant verified on Twitter now only means that someone paid money to X. (And of course you can't read it if you're not logged in.)

Exactly like how you evaluate respectability on any platform including the web. Not like there are reliable checkmarks everywhere you go.

Re: Microsoft Outlook, Exchange and Teams calendar are down worldwide

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Hey, privacy is a vald concern. I could just as easily say 'When you say "privacy doesn't matter" most of us hear "moron". Try being a bit more civil next time.

Privacy isn't free and comes with its own costs. I give up on a lot of things but I also realize programmers and ops people need to eat too, and servers, bandwidth aren't free.

Re: Microsoft Outlook, Exchange and Teams calendar are down worldwide

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> 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

The thing about this that's troubling is that you saw it and it troubled you.

Most sites linked from HN you don't see that number even though it often numbers in the thousands; and if you do get told, they don't let you use a single click to continue without agreeing.

I was pleasantly surprised how transparent this was, and that I could just disagree and continue, instead of the usual GDPR-dodging dark patterns.

Re: Microsoft Outlook, Exchange and Teams calendar are down worldwide

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> 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

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).

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