First, I must admit that I have never been a fan of Microsoft, although I do use WINDOWS due to the limited availability of apps for other operating systems. They have led the push that has forced us to use poorly designed and vulnerable software systems for our daily activities at Work and at Home. The gradual transition from PC and LAN-based data storage and applications to Cloud-based storage and applications makes it more difficult for us to protect our data and our LAN systems.
While the Global Microsoft services outage event is a huge concern, I am just as concerned about how quiet this was kept until the day after the event began. I have no idea how they were able to avoid widespread news of this event that apparently affected millions of people, for nearly 24 hours after it started. I actually got an email notice (which was probably hard to send) from a Brokerage firm telling me that there was a major outage of their email systems, before I heard one word about this outage.
My one question is – “were people who use Microsoft’s One Drive without access to their own personal computer data during this outage.” If you were, you should take a serious look at how and where you are storing your data and how you access the applications that you use every day. If you use cloud storage for personal data, at least maintain a frequently-updated backup at your location.
I was impacted only indirectly, as many people and firms I deal with use Microsoft’s Outlook and other cloud-based services. I was not directly impacted because I have resisted that direction so far. Like everybody else, I am being pushed toward the cloud as some “apps” become unavailable to run locally on a single PC or a LAN.
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