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[–] sbv 86 points 3 weeks ago (9 children)

The Venn diagram of Lemmy users and Outlook users is probably pretty close to two separate circles. I'm sure there's some commonality, but probably not a lot.

[–] [email protected] 77 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Well, I for one work at a company that uses it. So you can at least have those circles touch.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Me too, let's touch circles

[–] [email protected] 15 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Fellas, is it gay when the circles touch?

[–] sbv 9 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

you just need to say the magic words...

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 weeks ago

Bro, you say no homo bro, but I want real homo bro

[–] [email protected] 29 points 3 weeks ago

At home, sure, but I have to use it at work.

No outage for me.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Most probably use it for work.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 weeks ago

A lot of companies use Google these days, I guess more of the smaller companies.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 3 weeks ago

O365 for business?

[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

I use Outlook for work. We host our own exchange server and don’t use any webmail though, so I guess that’s why everything works as normal?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 weeks ago

For what I know the problem was primarily with the webmail.

I used the desktop app with exchange online and wouldn't have noticed anything unless the support team didn't inform us.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 weeks ago

Bro get a job

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Yeah, many of us are lucky enough to not have touched any MS products in literally decades. Feelz nice.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

Apart from all of the people working using it

I actually quite like outlook, better than Gmail and both are better than any of the desktop clients I've tried on Linux

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Have you tried thunderbird? I like it a lot.

At work I haven't bothered with using thunderbird but I might if new outlook doesn't get good by 2029 (or whenever they retire the old outlook app)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

I tried it out, found it felt a bit clunky and slow which when comparing it to a web UI is a bit of a put off

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Oh, I like it because it is fast and that all the emails are downloaded locally.

But I guess that the UI is a bit outdated especially before their quite recent makeover. Thunderbird has existed for 20 years after all.

If you haven't tried it recently I encourage you to try it again, but I get if you don't want to bother.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago

I have tried it since the makeover, it doesn't look that different unless I didn't get the new version or something

[–] sbv 1 points 3 weeks ago
[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 weeks ago

that's not a Venn diagram

[–] [email protected] 63 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

20 years ago:

"Hey I've got a great idea, let's take all these little local decentralized things and put them all onto one centralized massive thing that needs 99.99999% uptime or the world's fucked. Nothing will go wrong."

[–] [email protected] 27 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Uptime on my old exchange servers roughly matched my ISPs uptime. O365 uptime is now : My ISPs - 0365s uptime. Real improvement there.

But hey, now when email goes down I just point to their admin dashboard and shrug at people. It's a lot simpler once you get over how much harder it is.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 weeks ago

I'm really happy that I don't have to administer any on prem exchange servers though.

[–] [email protected] 53 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 28 points 3 weeks ago

Blissfully unaware, thanks.

[–] xmunk 48 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

Well, all the devs at companies with MS Office tool sets are too busy playing factorio to post here today.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 3 weeks ago

The factory must grow though, sooo...

[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 weeks ago

I can relate to factorio because I too want to go into outter space and forget all my fuck ups on this planet.

[–] [email protected] 38 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

I don't understand, you didn't get the jokes? I forwarded the chain letter to everyone

[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 weeks ago

see, there no chain on letter. no wonder did not deliver

[–] gravitas_deficiency 13 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Microsoft ~~Outlook~~ Outage

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 weeks ago

Microsoft Outrage

[–] [email protected] 13 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

My Outlook stubbornly refuses to stop giving me email. 😑

Edit: Just checked Bleeping Computer. They've got the story. https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/microsoft/microsoft-365-outage-impacts-exchange-online-teams-sharepoint/

[–] [email protected] 11 points 3 weeks ago

Reporter: [REDACTED]
Reason: not programming-related

Reporter has a point.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

We've all heard the punchline too many times before, it's played out.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 weeks ago

Agreed. From this thread, you can tell, it's not funny any longer.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

What does an MS Outlook outage inherently have to do with programming?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

How ami I going to do version control without being able to email myself "Newcode-today-new-newist-morenew-actuallynew-latest.txt?"

[–] HumanPerson 1 points 3 weeks ago

You do that? I just slam my hand into a different part of my keyboard and try to keep the different cjsbbfhzjksb's separate. (I typed this on mobile, so my fudjevfkcbw's aren't the most accurate).

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 weeks ago

Delightfully, I was unaware.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 weeks ago

MS Outlook is the joke.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 weeks ago

Nope, I use Thunderbird.