Tell me again how easy it is to have all your digital infrastructure outsourced to one single party..?
The outage has affected businesses and organisations across the world that use Microsoft products.
And if you have put all your eggs in one basket, like lots of organisations have, the only thing you can do is wait for Microsoft to get their shit together.
OpenAI said it was investigating a problem with Microsoft connectors in which new connections may be broken and tools were not working as expected. Anthropic said it had identified an issue with an upstream provider affecting its Microsoft 365 connector.
Nice, let AI fix it. What could possibly go wrong, right? Other than Microsoft, your documents and other sensitive data will now probably also be in the hands of OpenAI and Anthropic. But you can trust them, really...
How about, say, running your text processors and e-mail clients locally? You know, like we used to do before "the cloud" made everything so much better? With backups under your own control, on your own storage? Using software that is auditable and doesn't require a monthly payment that increases every so many months?
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