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pitabas106 | on: Microsoft Outlook/365 still down after 12 hours
I have always felt it's less about email redundancy and more about having a backup plan. If outlook goes down tomorrow, does everyone know how to keep work and client communication moving? that is something worth thinking about.
emil-lp | parent | next
Who wants to bet that Microsoft is using slack to communicate now?
enopod_ | root | parent
Fire up that old IRC server!
EmX_3000 | root | parent
There was no need to abandon perfectly working technology, with pain some people might learn this. Departmental servers, pesky lordly sysadmins, this was a working sustainable system that even scaled to the phone company and US government levels.
SubiculumCode | parent
For the amount of uneeded emails about future emails about other emails, probably no real work was lost.