{"id":14327,"date":"2026-11-14T15:10:01","date_gmt":"2026-11-14T22:10:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/?p=14327"},"modified":"2026-11-15T15:13:33","modified_gmt":"2026-11-15T22:13:33","slug":"thank-you-microsoft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2026\/11\/14\/thank-you-microsoft\/","title":{"rendered":"Thank you, Microsoft"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/business\/telecom\/the-chaos-and-unexpected-joys-of-a-19-hour-global-email-outage-37b7170c\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">from the Wall Street Journal<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading\">The Chaos and Unexpected Joys of a 19-Hour Global Email Outage<\/h1>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It was the workplace equivalent of a snow day, pushing some to frustration, some to the telephone; one man built bookshelves<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">By\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/news\/author\/robert-mcmillan\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Robert McMillan<\/a> and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/news\/author\/angel-au-yeung\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Angel Au-Yeung<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images.wsj.net\/im-68165480?width=700&amp;height=479\" alt=\"Illustration of a computer screen displaying the Microsoft Outlook and Teams apps, with a large notification badge over Outlook.\" style=\"aspect-ratio:1.4613778705636744;width:700px;height:auto\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><em>ROBERT MICHAEL\/DPA\/ZUMA PRESS<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We may live in an age of messaging apps and artificial intelligence, but as about half a billion people discovered this week, good old-fashioned email is pretty important, too.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Starting around 12:30 p.m. Eastern on Thursday, a&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/tech\/microsoft-working-to-fix-widespread-outage-8df67a4e?mod=article_inline\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Microsoft cloud outage knocked<\/a>&nbsp;the company\u2019s email and other services offline. The interruption left swaths of the globe, from healthcare systems to stock exchanges to members of U.K. Parliament, without one of their main tools<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">[ <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/business\/telecom\/the-chaos-and-unexpected-joys-of-a-19-hour-global-email-outage-37b7170c\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">click to continue reading at WSJ<\/a> ]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from the Wall Street Journal The Chaos and Unexpected Joys of a 19-Hour Global Email Outage It was the workplace equivalent of a snow day, pushing some to frustration, some to the telephone; one man built bookshelves By\u00a0Robert McMillan and\u00a0Angel Au-Yeung We may live in an age of messaging apps and artificial intelligence, but as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"off","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14327","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-art","category-weirdness"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14327","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14327"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14327\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14328,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14327\/revisions\/14328"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14327"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14327"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14327"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}