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Felt bad for the engineers that it had to happen on a Friday but for a multi day outage I guess it's a blessing in disguise.

Barring corona & year end holidays, this is probably the closest we can get to a global work holiday.

Even consumer Outlook is down.

This means you cannot do anything that requires email auth (OTP, signup etc)

Email OTP is insecure anyway.
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it happened on Thursday afternoon US time and it is still going on since then, Europe just joined this morning (unless someone worked yesterday late evening)
Call it a long weekend, then :-)
My employer switched to Google this year. I’m sure someone is feeling proud.