Major outage hits Microsoft Office 365

http://www.zdnet.com/blog/microsoft/outage-hits-microsoft-crm-online-office-365-customers/10359

by evanw • 15 years ago

50 38 15 years ago

sciurus• 15 years ago

This also affects Live@edu.

avolcano• 15 years ago

Yep. My college's email was out for two hours, and apparently University of Georgia's is still out (or was as of an hour or so ago).

windsurfer• 15 years ago

I guess it's now Office 364?

rbanffy10• 15 years ago

IIRC, they had another outage a couple days back. It would be 363 now.

sdizdar• 15 years ago

At least somebody is using it.

j_col• 15 years ago

Maybe someone left on auto-update and the server restarted after a hotfix? (sorry, cheap shot I know)

superuser22• 15 years ago

And Microsoft has proven to its customers that the Cloud is a toy and not reliable enough for business-critical systems, so everything should return to the (Mcrosoft-dominated and less competitive) status quo.

Maybe it's just accidental downtime. But Microsoft is not exactly competitive in the cloud computing world (unless you need to run Windows apps) - I don't think it's in their interests for this movement to succeed in the business world.

rbanffy10• 15 years ago

> I don't think it's in their interests for this movement to succeed in the business world.

I have to agree with you on that, but I don't think they would go that far to tarnish the image of other cloud providers.

Right now, just about every other cloud service can offer better uptime numbers than Microsoft.

barista2• 15 years ago

citation needed.

ditojim6• 15 years ago

google has been proving otherwise for the last few years.

Rickasaurus• 15 years ago

From what I've heard the google cloud infrastructure hasn't exactly been a picnic either. For now I think it's best to host your own if you can.

barista2• 15 years ago

Finally I got to hear about Office 365 being down. Was tired of hearing AWS down, gmail down....

rbanffy10• 15 years ago

They have been in operation for a month or so. Give them time. With two major incidents reported since they started, they are certainly not wasting time.

sunchild• 15 years ago

Wasn't Office 365 released a few weeks ago? Not off to a good start. I feel bad for corporate users who are stuck with that junk as their toolkit. I wish this were enough to convince people that they don't need Word or Excel – they just think they do. (They definitely don't need PowerPoint.)

msredmond• 15 years ago

Great comments under that article, too.

powertower• 15 years ago

Datacenter's network issue affecting a small number of customers.

ditojim6• 15 years ago

just a friendly reminder that Google Apps had a 99.984% up-time last year.

Silhouette4• 15 years ago

Please disclose your commercial interest if you're going to post such "friendly reminders" in HN discussions. Thanks.

dereg• 15 years ago

Dito provides Google Apps for Business™ deployment, change management, integration, supporting services, and products to organizations of all sizes. As a leading Google Apps Authorized Reseller and a Google Referred Training Partner, we have the experience and expertise to handle your Google Apps needs.

Friendly reminder indeed.

ditojim6• 15 years ago

please dont tell people to disclose things about themselves that are available in their profile, especially when the accuser provides no information whatsoever on their background. i think google apps is great. i sell it too. i'm not acting as a journalist on here and i dont need to be objective or disclose affiliations.

cHalgan2• 15 years ago

That is not true. When Google Apps don't work they just don't update their status page and ignore users. Last time I had to fight on forums (with other people) to convince Google guys that Google Docs was reporting 404 for many files. Finally the problem was fixed, but status page was never updated.

MikeCapone2• 15 years ago

This could be a problem in a single data center that didn't affect many people. This seems to be for all Office 365 users.

Major outage hits Microsoft Office 365

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