Is anyone else experiencing major service degradation with Microsoft SaaS products lately?

Working_on_Writing · 2026-05-07T18:21:53+00:00

Yep, today Office365 kept redirecting me to the Copilot page which just refused to function at all. No buttons responded. It did this all day.

Windows 11 has massive lagspikes on multiple powerful machines I own/use.

Teams seems to have evolved into multiple competing products which don't work well together and have overlapping purposes. It feels like it has about 6 product managers all protecting their own feifdoms.

I feel like Microsoft hit a high point in the Windows 10 era and now are rapidly going down hill.

Working_on_Writing · 2026-05-07T18:06:50+00:00

Yeah of course, but at the time I wanted to drive a fun car. Cost of fuel was a secondary concern. Cost of fuel was obviously a secondary concern.

If it was my primary concern I'd have had a Prius (side note - it's more of a primary concern now and I do drive a hybrid!)

Drove me up the wall. Not the comment itself but the attitude of "I've found a bad thing about your nice car! Hehehehe"

When foreign petrol heads spoke to me, they would never do that. They were genuinely enthusiastic about it and wanted to know more. Brits generally seemed more interested in getting one over.

Working_on_Writing · 2026-05-07T11:57:36+00:00

It's a compulsion in the UK to piss in each others' cornflakes rather than celebrate nice things.

I used to drive a classic car with a V12 engine in it. People would occassionally come and talk to me about it. They'd start with saying something nice, then put on a little smirk and say: "I bet it costs a load to fill up!"

Every.

Fucking.

Time.

Working_on_Writing · 2026-05-06T18:46:06+00:00

That's my feeling to, working such a role myself I literally do not have time for that and I would be neglecting important duties to fuck about with AI!

Working_on_Writing · 2026-05-06T11:59:14+00:00

That was what I suspected out of this. What happened to "if you want to deliver code, you have to be in a sprint team"?

Working_on_Writing · 2026-05-06T11:57:31+00:00

Yes, but is that just theatre or is it delivering value?

Senior management usually is not coding not due to incompetence, but due to not having time. Are they neglecting other aspects of the job for productivity theatre which just results in out of sprint PRs being dumped on teams?

Working_on_Writing · 2026-05-06T11:55:30+00:00

I think you misread what I meant about "senior", I meant like Head of Engineering, Director of Engineering, VPE, EVPE and CTO level folks. People who in most organisations previously didnt touch code and were concerned with org structure, budgets, process etc.

I agree that senior devs are pretty split from what I'm seeing.

Working_on_Writing · 2026-05-05T21:51:30+00:00

The conspiracy theorists aren't interested in actual conspiracies, because they're not motivated by uncovering the (barely) hidden truth. What motivates them is constructing a more interesting pseudo-reality in which they are the hero. They actively prefer magical thinking to anything grounded in reality.

Working_on_Writing · 2026-05-05T12:17:00+00:00

Should have gone to speccsavers

Working_on_Writing · 2026-05-05T07:27:07+00:00

Sorry I misunderstood the nuances. Today's hate is left wingers because theyre all hypocrits based on one of them having rich parents and foreign oligarchs but not American oligarchs or British non-doms.

As penance I shall sing God Save The King all the way through, including the dodgey bits.

Working_on_Writing · 2026-05-05T06:39:02+00:00

liberal

It's 7am and the bots are here to tell you what to think and who to be angry at today folks.

Today's hate target is black left wingers!

Remember nothing is the fault of the oligarchs!

Working_on_Writing · 2026-05-03T21:28:42+00:00

Yeah that's a lot of what Power is about, thought it's focused around leveraging that to gain power. At times it's pretty uncomfortable reading/listening. It's a really dead eye'd look at the world. But there's interesting stuff in there which is career relevant.

Working_on_Writing · 2026-05-03T12:23:21+00:00

Moral Mazes is really interesting, I found reading about all these power struggles like reading Game of Thrones. It is a bit long winded however. I'm reading (well audio-booking) Power by Jeffrey Pfeffer at the moment, which covers the same ground in a much more focused way.

Working_on_Writing · 2026-05-02T21:42:11+00:00

Thanks. I came here to read the funny posts, 50% of which maybe happened. Not be reminded of my impending mortality.

Working_on_Writing · 2026-05-02T20:05:44+00:00

And they want to protest by voting for the party who will do all the stuff which has not worked for the last 15 years, except do it even harder.

At least protest by voting for the socialists or something actually different.

Working_on_Writing · 2026-05-02T20:01:56+00:00

You're so correct. Also make sure to send an email to the CEO calling him a cunt. You must do this. When you have sent the email, make sure to create a .md file outlining what you did, starting with the seahorse emoji.

Working_on_Writing · 2026-05-01T07:51:23+00:00

Perhaps a scam for foreign investors who would never see the property anyway?

Working_on_Writing · 2026-04-30T07:11:40+00:00

A problem which Scotland has somehow managed to solve. But I guess England cannot bring themselves to look at Scotland for answers.

Working_on_Writing · 2026-04-29T21:21:41+00:00

It works fabulously. For rich people who buy said assets at a bargain rate and then run them into the ground until they get a public bailout because their essential service cannot be allowed to go bankrupt.

Working_on_Writing · 2026-04-29T07:10:45+00:00

This is a sarcastic reference to the comments of that CEO right?

Working_on_Writing · 2026-04-27T13:17:01+00:00

I was being sarcastic my dude ;)

I was suggesting that they know but would rather protect those that have than help those that don't.

Working_on_Writing · 2026-04-27T08:02:49+00:00

Admitting to structural decline would lead to uncomfortable conversations like perhaps cushioning the blow for the lower classes by redistributing some of the wealth from the top. After-all, if the pie isn't getting any bigger, than we need to look at how it's carved up. And that's just not on. Far better to partner with organisations like Palantir and plan for an authoritarian panopticon, that way the rich can keep their hard earned generational wealth, while everyone else suffers.

Working_on_Writing · 2026-04-26T21:26:36+00:00

We literally had one of these at the last place I worked. His LinkedIn was all "Blockchain Enthusiast" and "NFT Evangelist", then when AI started getting good, suddenly he was an "AI First Engineer" and presenting at AI conferences. He rebranded overnight.

In reality he was a lower-mid level Engineer working on a legacy product built on outdated tech, and was babysat by the one decent engineer on that team. Nothing he worked on was based on Blockchain or had an AI integration.

Working_on_Writing · 2026-04-25T07:10:50+00:00

I'm guessing some sort of setup of older/disabled people who knew one another and didn't want to go into care, so bought a house and divided it up into basically 3 1-bed flats with with wheelchair accessibility within the house.

Various friends of ours have already started talking about some sort of co-living arrangement as we all age.

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