I wonder if it'll be a more useful course than the one we had when Crowdstrike broke everything, or the many times when AWS US-East-1 has fallen over taking down many popular services.

The lesson most people learn from this sort of outage is that things bounce back afterwards, and the risk is minimal enough that a day out of every few years isn't enough of a problem to pay more.

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The postmortem on this will be interesting. A few days prior Microsoft said several versions of on premise Exchange are permanently vulnerable.

Maybe AI scanning found these Exchange exploits and after laying off so many developers, they vibe coded an exploit fix and deployed it. But behind the scenes it is all just still Exchange which if anyone has experience managing, its a complex nightmare of code going back decades. With all sorts of Active Directory requirements and everything else. The mail database system it uses, and probably still used in Office 365 (Office 363 today?) is also a nightmare.

Just speculation though

It’s pretty crazy how much Microsoft can get away with. Almost a government level of getawayability.

naa .. it's totally fine. The only thing that will move consciences will be data loss/leak at scale. But even in that case I have some doubts ...

And, if eventually a big bunch of CTOs starts considering going back so self-hosting/managing people will pop up everywhere saying "even if <big corp> sucks, you cannot do better" or "it will cost you more" or "what about the peak usage".

It's incredible how we ended up paying much more, giving voluntarily all our data, and getting a shitty service.