[worik]

Interesting, but disingenuous

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]

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]

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"

https://www.theregister.com/2026/03/04/users_fume_at_outlook...

discussed here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47246044

[itopaloglu83]

Microslop at its best.