1 hour ago · Tech · hide · Fediverse post

I switched to Linux permanently four years ago. I had always been an on-again, off-again user of Windows and Microsoft products. That pretty much ended when I made this last switch to Linux. Now I know why. According to TechCrunch, "Microsoft 365 services, including Outlook, Teams and AI assistant Copilot, were interrupted. Downdetector said it received outage reports from users in more than 70 countries and territories. It began with email and chat and then spread. The outage also knocked out the company's Copilot AI tools and Defender security screening software, and prevented system administrators from accessing their internal Intune dashboards and features." But for people like me who don't use any of those services, let alone Windows, I was oblivious until I started seeing posts across the aggregators I follow to find content I want to read. For us, it's business as usual. +1 for FOSS! My desktop is Debian 13 running Plasma (Wayland). My office needs are met by LibreOffice,…

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