• ZeDoTelhado@lemmy.world
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        You are not incorrect about this. However, every time I see an abomination with macros and external calls made in excel I want to shoot the head department for such heresy (yes, usually they are between departments and they call this shit “apps”. Just fucking kill me)

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      Same- actually I’ve been okay with LibreOffice since about 2016 when I tossed Microsoft out of my life.

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    If you think this will finally bring about a reckoning, let me point out that Microsoft’s stock price is up on the day.

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      Well, right. Because it proved to investors how much of the world uses Microsoft’s products.

      Whether or not it is a good product is of no relevance.

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    I guess there’s now a market for backup email servers for medium to large corporations. I wonder how much automation broke.

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    I’m off this week, but we just switched from Cisco Jabber to MS Teams this year. My team wanted to go to WebEx but the execs told us no. I’m interested to see what the fallout was when I get back on Monday

    • DuncanTheDrunk@lemmy.world
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      We’re moving from Cisco to Vonage, and oh boy does it suck. The webpage was eating every ounce of RAM it could get its hands on. They fixed the memory leak after a week of terrible performance so it was at least usable, but it’s a straight downgrade. There was enough pushback that they stopped the rollout, but they’re planning on bringing it back after the holidays. Can’t wait.

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      teams was mostly up the entire time I think? All I lost was the org chart and the ability to send meetings

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        I had the main Teams window full-on lock up a few times, but it always recovered.

        I suspect IT will be reviewing the incident to figure out a non-MS disaster recovery plan though.

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    I understand buying the service from a reliable vendor, but if you’re a gigantic organisation it seems insane to have it running on the same infrastructure as all their other clients.

    Why set it up so if you break something you break the whole world?

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    I’ve been yelling about this for a long time and nobody listens. At least they might, now.

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      You overestimate people. The general public will cry and bitch and moan, but the minute they can access things again, they immediately forget and move on.
      I wish I was joking.

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    Microsoft security products including Microsoft Defender and Intune have been impacted by the outage

    Who decided that was a good idea. The last time I used a windows antivirus it downloaded virus definitions and then scanned using those definitions, if it wasn’t able to connect to the web it was non-issue. When did that change.

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      It’s such a strange thing to witness computing getting more and more personal and then seeing it all taken away again.