There’s a major Microsoft outage, and social media is full of people wondering whether they’ll be able to work today.
A year ago, I would’ve been one of them.
Today? I’m retired.
My Outlook isn’t downloading emails, Teams isn’t cooperating, and apparently half the working world is wondering whether today will be an unexpected vacation.
Meanwhile, I’m sitting here thinking, Well, they’ll fix it when they fix it.
Retirement has a wonderful way of changing your definition of an emergency.
But there is one thing about this outage that deserves attention. So much of our business, government, and everyday life depends on a handful of technology companies. When one has a bad day, millions of people can feel it.
If it’s a technical failure, that’s one thing. If it turns out someone deliberately caused it, that’s an entirely different conversation.
Until then, I’m not losing any sleep over it.
Neither is Dharma.
Now You Know: Microsoft Defender’s basic antivirus protection runs locally on Windows computers. So even when Microsoft’s cloud services have problems, your computer doesn’t automatically lose its antivirus protection.
