Microsoft struggling to restore service as global outage affects services

Probably my bet is some of the experienced hands that could have prevented this issue or fixed it quickly were let go, replaced with AI that doesn't have their experience.

If this is the case, id expect some of these folks to be brought back with an apology and additional salary.

MS hacked ?

Some serious news said "problems with servers, that big computers doing things". So big computers are busy more then usual calculating things... So maybe before they was calculating some simple things like small numbers like '4' or '42', don't remember which one they are not using anymore since roughly the same timeframe :) Or maybe MS also had their own "easy numbers" deployed and "calculations" are suddenly much more involved ? Who knows ? ;)

Or maybe they deployed new version of femous Exchange ? "New" good, right ? ;)

Or, as peoples already sugessted, no more human knowhow in the loop ?

Or maybe they get mad about Linus from YT making yesterday video about world without Windows ? "You want world without Windows ? Ok, we give you taste of world without a Windows ! But look your Windows is already at version 365 so we just power down Outlook for few hours ! He he he" ;)

But surely we don't need humans at Microsoft maintaining highly critical software any more right? /s