@stux There was something up with Microsoft?

@stux I noticed nothing.

@stux what should people use? Process of elimination says no Google, no Microsoft, no Apple, not Raspberry Pi, and Firefox is using 2000s nostalgia pathos marketing which feels pretty underhanded. Dolphin Browser? Linux? Are we gonna stop using computers in general??

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It's both down and not down until you check it. Quantum email. 😄

@stux Folks at our dentist office were very impressed when I told them that we (mostly) don't use Microsoft products.

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Corollary, there is no technofascist brotherhood when people stop buying fossil fuels.

That axis alliance between American tech and the oil industry; it needs to go.

https://www.reuters.com/business/retail-consumer/microsoft-plans-10-billion-plus-gulf-investment-with-focus-resilience-2026-09-23/

https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/ireland-data-watchdog-accused-stalling-probe-microsofts-hosting-israeli-military-app

https://cybernews.com/security/russian-hackers-microsoft-exchange-nato-emails/

https://news.microsoft.com/source/emea/2026/02/microsoft-accelerates-ai-skilling-in-saudi-arabia-helping-3-million-people-acquire-ai-skills-by-2030/

https://www.wired.me/story/microsoft-israel-chief-steps-down-after-mass-surveillance-probe

https://www.microsoft.com/en/customers/story/20648-sanabil-investments-microsoft-365-copilot

https://securityboulevard.com/2026/11/russias-turla-hackers-target-exchange-servers-for-espionage/

https://news.microsoft.com/source/emea/features/the-uaes-next-ai-advantage-will-come-from-institutional-intelligence/

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/may/12/microsoft-head-israel-step-down

https://news.microsoft.com/source/emea/2026/11/microsoft-and-qatars-ministry-of-communications-and-information-technology-mark-availability-of-azure-openai-service-in-foundry-in-qatar-at-mwc26-doha/

https://thehackernews.com/2026/09/russias-star-blizzard-targets-100.html?m=1

https://www.gulf-times.com/article/735838/business/meeza-microsoft-to-bring-microsoft-sovereign-private-cloud-to-qatar/amp

https://www.pcmag.com/news/microsofts-5899-ai-laptop-is-here-and-you-should-absolutely-not-buy-it

@stux Welcome to Club Totally Unaffected By This Nonsense! ^.^

@stux there was a microsoft outage?
I must have missed the news. *shrug* oh well, some tuber will probably report on it at some point.

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You get it.

@stux Some people don't have a choice... But it's not always a bad thing... See, today, no annoying work emails.

@stux The only Microsoft product I use is email. Way back in the past I thought that Microsoft was less evil than Google. So, I am curious. What do you use for email? For a while I was thinking of switching to Proton, but that seems unwise now.

@stux This. I didn’t notice a thing.

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