On: Global Microsoft Outage

It is literally at the top of the front page on all major news services.

Here in the UK it was on Radio 4 main news this morning and is the headline story for the online mainstream newspapers.

It's also got two stories on the BBC Home Page, including one which is live reporting.

Except in The Netherlands, where we have some political trouble.

Curious how such a worldwide issue can manifest, considering Microsoft usually has some pretty good geo availability mirroring?

Even Facebook took itself down with a single configuration change. Mistakes happen.

Well, over here we vote each year for the next four years.