Outlook.com DNS records disappeared

Post by josteink » Fri, Nov 22, 2013, 8:02 AM UTC

lucb1e wrote: post #90

tpurves wrote: post #71

Do they never learn? I am suddenly remebering distant flashbacks to 2001 when microsoft wiped out hotmail for 24hrs with a massive DNS screw-up: CNET: Microsoft blames technicians for massive outage (2001) http://news.cnet.com/2100-1001-251427.html Wired: How, Why Microsoft Went Down (2001) http://www.wired.com/science/discoveries/news/2001/01/41412?... Can you imagine in those days, everyone was on hotmail, gmail ha…

And that's why I run my own mail server nowadays. Privacy, control over data, and at least I'm responsible for my own downtime without impacting more than a few people. Decentralisation for the win, in my opinion. Also credits to my ISP for allowing hosting of my own server, running native IPv6 and of course opening port 25. Xs4all is a really cool ISP to have in the Netherlands :)

Post by oneeyedpigeon » Fri, Nov 22, 2013, 10:38 AM UTC

curiousDog wrote: post #92

oneeyedpigeon wrote: post #34

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Maybe if Microsoft wasn't wasting its time trying to spread slurs about competitors, it could actually spend that time creating interesting software, building viable new products, and making sure it doesn't f*ck up its own DNS records. Or maybe someone's making that point for them ...

Yes, ALL the developers (judging by your comment, who are no doubt better coders than you) at Microsoft are working on the new marketing campaign. Jesus christ, viable new products, perhaps they should just start making beer delivery apps on the rails stack, that'll prove themselves right? That 4chan thread the other day was exactly about guys like you.

Post by criley2 » Fri, Nov 22, 2013, 4:37 PM UTC

pcx66 wrote: post #83

criley2 wrote: post #82

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Jealous? To me it shows aggressive brand management. I've never really seen Microsoft as a company above ribbing on competitors. Why is it even a bad thing? Apple did it against PC for like a decade.

Apple had a point, that they were cooler. They were saying, "hey, we are different". How does what Microsoft's saying about Google not apply to it? MS doesn't care about your privacy any more than Google. With the Snowden revelations and all, they have no case to make.

Post by mistermann » Sat, Nov 30, 2013, 6:12 PM UTC

niels_olson wrote: post #73

mistermann wrote: post #68

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Judging by their revenues, someone must find their software interesting, or at least useful.

They just haven't finished burning through the world's biggest lead.