Tech talk, cold comfort.

Oh boy!

http://www.pcworld.com/article/2367720/ ... hours.html

Apparently, the outage affected a large number of users.

Plus, the length of the outage, and the fact that it struck during U.S. work hours, makes it a significant and embarrassing one for Microsoft, which is locked in a fight with Google in the cloud communication and collaboration software market.

Reminds me of a comic:

http://ars.userfriendly.org/cartoons/?id=20070901

heh... you know, I remember when they introduced Windows Genuine Advantage. It was all doom and gloom. I didn't mind it, however.

9 hours downtime is pretty serious for most businesses. I use "Google Apps" and connect my domains to those. Works pretty good. (Only for email and I use Outlook + POP3, their Gmail Web inteface sucks monkey ballz) I did try this new "Outlook.com" thing and connected one of my domains to it for a test, oh boy, I ended up in a fight with Microsoft support. It was all batshit crazy. I don't remember exactly how it started but I think since I realized, they didn't allow you to create as many email aliases as you want, or maybe they didn't allow the *@domain.com alias, anyhow, I decided, it wasn't for me. Low and behold, the motherfuckers didn't want to stop the service and it was a crazy mess.

After that entire "incident", I decided to never and I mean never ever use any kind of Microsoft subscription services. At least at "Google Apps", I got a lot more control over the billing periods.

When a service gets you so angry that you start to fight with their support, all mad and blood pressure high, you know that it's something you want to stay as far away as you can from it.

To hell, that's where they can go.