Office 365: Suffer 18 Days' Outage, Still Pay Half Price 137
rtfa-troll writes "Microsoft is preparing its customers for plenty of outage time according to the Register, with a scheme for Office 365 which will give customers some money back. The offer seems to be Microsoft's answer to Google offering a '100% uptime guarantee' (they even pay for maintenance time) The most interesting thing about the scheme is that you can have a one and a half day outage every month (or is that 18 solid days a year?) and still expect to pay half price. I wonder Microsoft have put the Sidekick management in charge of their customer's data. Looking forward my expense forms have getting eaten by the cloud so I have to fill them in again."
Re:Typo in title (Score:2, Insightful)
So it's advertised as Office 365, you're paying for Office 356, but getting Office 347.
Yeah, that sounds like Microsoft.
Data loss is your own fault... (Score:4, Insightful)
Looking forward my expense forms have getting eaten by the cloud so I have to fill them in again.
Especially this early in the life cycle of this "cloud" crap. Any expectation of not loosing your data if you don't keep a backup yourself is entirely your own fault.
Besides, I though we left terminal computing (either smart or dumb) back in the '80's. Screw that crap, I'll keep my data and aps on my own computer, thank you.
The cloud is horribly unreliable. (Score:5, Insightful)
The cloud is horribly unreliable. You should continue using Windows and Office instead.
-- Microsoft.
Slashdot... (Score:3, Insightful)
Come on, guys. It's just a SLA. You get a full refund if it's more than 5% downtime (18.25 days). You get half off for 99% to 95% uptime , and 25% off for 99.9% to 99%. Do you really think they're expecting to give these refunds? No. But it's there in a contract just in case. I doubt many people will even get the 25% refund. 99.9% isn't by any means terrible.
Write an article when it actually goes down. The mindless /. MS bashing needs to stop.
Re:This is the reliability of Cloud Hosting? (Score:2, Insightful)
Then 4 hours later dell gets you the replacement part. Not 18 days later.
Re:Speaking of typos . . . (Score:4, Insightful)