This idea of reliance on tech reminds me of something I have often wondered about. If I am informed correctly, a large enough solar flare could and would wipe out most of the electronics on the planet.
These things happen, and eventually it will happen again. Are we doing ANYTHING to protect ourselves from that catastrophe? Faraday cages aside, what about satellites, air traffic, all of the myriad devices it would affect. It's a huge deal, and I think we need to start thinking about a solution, or at least some sort of workaround.
Hope I don't come off too Chicken Little, it's just a thought that's been rattling around upstairs for a while, and this article triggered those neurons again.
ROTFL. Can you give some examples ?
Win 98 crashed by installing printer driver, Win2k and XP was put down by worms, Win 10 and 11 are total failures in QA: 1 bug fixed, 2 introduced.
This idea of reliance on tech reminds me of something I have often wondered about. If I am informed correctly, a large enough solar flare could and would wipe out most of the electronics on the planet.
These things happen, and eventually it will happen again. Are we doing ANYTHING to protect ourselves from that catastrophe? Faraday cages aside, what about satellites, air traffic, all of the myriad devices it would affect. It's a huge deal, and I think we need to start thinking about a solution, or at least some sort of workaround.
Hope I don't come off too Chicken Little, it's just a thought that's been rattling around upstairs for a while, and this article triggered those neurons again.
Wrong title. Fix it to "Microsoft outage 'stark reminder' of how much we rely on US tech and we should fix this ASAP!".
Wrong title. Fix it to "Microsoft outage 'stark reminder' of how much we rely on datacenters."
Why is anyone using any Microsoft product in 2026
Because no one will ever be blamed for using any Microsoft product
More like a stark reminder that Microsoft's QA discipline was dissolved in 2014 under Satya Nadella.
> Microsoft's QA discipline
ROTFL. Can you give some examples ? Win 98 crashed by installing printer driver, Win2k and XP was put down by worms, Win 10 and 11 are total failures in QA: 1 bug fixed, 2 introduced.