Microsoft Says It Is Working On Fix After Users Report Skype, Outlook, Xbox Live Outages (foxnews.com) 23
An anonymous reader shares a report: A huge outage hit Microsoft services Tuesday morning, with users across the globe experiencing problems accessing Outlook, Xbox and Skype. Users were unable to log onto the Outlook email client via mobile devices and received an error message when trying to access the desktop version of the service. Users also reportedly experienced problems with Microsoft's Xbox and Skype services. Microsoft acknowledged the Xbox issues in a statement posted to its Xbox Live status page. "Another issue has been identified that is causing problems for some members signing in to Xbox Live. The team is working to resolve the issue as quickly as possible. Thanks for your patience," it said.
CIA Connection (Score:3, Insightful)
Given that Wikileaks has revealed this morning that the CIA receives transcripts of Skype chats, I wonder if there is a connection.
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Damn. (Score:2)
... users across the globe experiencing problems accessing Outlook, Xbox and Skype. ...
Users were unable to log onto the Outlook email client
Damn. I thought it was a new feature.
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Azure...? (Score:4, Informative)
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It sounds like cloud based Azure and AWS don't have more than one storage and/or access point, i.e., multiple, accessible backups.
Both Microsoft and Amazon's idea of "backup" is just replicating the thing to multiple data-centers and using short DNS timeouts to be able to move services from datacenter to datacenter. It's a very cheap/badly implemented method of HA, not backup.
Case in point: O365 does not have point-in-time backups and yes, they occasionally have a corrupted mailbox or folder that has replicated in it's corrupt state across the globe. Why: they're running Windows and Exchange on a variation of a 1993 file system - they
So Amazon fired that guy and he landed a new job? (Score:1)
N/T
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I hope not, they just spent millions of dollars training him. You don't fire an asset like that.
Yep...Shocker... (Score:2, Interesting)
Re: Linux crashes after updates too. (Score:1)