The VP says: "but sometimes it's just check emails and verify your accounts. "
From the Techcrunch article:
“Microsoft never sent me any notification at all about this. I’ve looked in every inbox in every spam folder in every mail log, and zero, nothing, zilch,” Donenfeld said.
I think Microsoft systems are intermittently failing, it is the simplest explanation
kajman 10 days ago [-]
Yesterday I couldn't get a download link for the Windows install media creation tool for a solid hour due to errors at their CDN(?). I have a friend in IT who tells me "degraded availability" across their many services is a daily thing.
The solution, clearly, is even more layoffs.
thewisenerd 10 days ago [-]
well, there was this, a while back: "experiencing a critical and recurring email delivery issue affecting recipients at outlook.com, live.com, hotmail.com, and msn.com"
"Emails to Outlook.com rejected due to a fault or overzealous blocking rules"
What a distasteful response. People are not `dumping on` microsoft. What kind of PR is this?
halJordan 9 days ago [-]
Absolutely braindead take to spend 10 years absolutely shitting on your end users and then getting mad when something happens and no one gives you the benefit of the doubt. Bro needs to read the room
Comment (with 134 replies): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47687884
The VP says: "but sometimes it's just check emails and verify your accounts. "
From the Techcrunch article:
I think Microsoft systems are intermittently failing, it is the simplest explanationThe solution, clearly, is even more layoffs.
"Emails to Outlook.com rejected due to a fault or overzealous blocking rules"
https://www.theregister.com/2026/03/04/users_fume_at_outlook...
discussed here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47246044