Microsoft, in case you haven’t heard, had an outage of global proportions yesterday (it’s still going on today but it seems that things are starting to run).
Microsoft Outlook and Microsoft 365 were the hardest hit. Which meant that businesses and other institutions who use Outlook for email and those who subscribe to Microsoft 365 were screwed.
I have to use Outlook for work. And that’s fine, it’s work and it’s up to them to keep it running.
But every time my home computer does a Windows update, I have to go through the litany and pages of ‘no, I don’t want Microsoft 365’ and ‘please for the love of all that is good, make One Drive go away’, which takes several minutes in the setup.
I have to jump through a million flaming hoops in order to buy Word/Excel/Access. And of course, every five years or so, my old version is ‘no longer supported’ so I have to do it again.
I’m thinking it is worth it.
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