Microsoft is Offline Again, Nobody Would Hire Microsofters, and More on Microsoft Layoffs
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Is Outlook down? Thousands of users report problems with Microsoft’s email platform
Thousands of Microsoft Outlook users reported issues with accessing and using the email platform Monday morning. Microsoft 365 outage and problem reports peaked at almost 18,000 shortly after 11 a.m. ET Monday morning, according to outage tracker Downdetector.
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Microsoft battles through two 365 outages in one day
At the time of writing, the Outlook email service has been in trouble since 1830 ET (2230 UTC).
An earlier incident took out multiple Microsoft 365 services, including Outlook, Teams, SharePoint Online, and OneDrive for Business.
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Ex-Microsoft employee says he did not get any job offers even after applying to more than 1000 places
An ex-Microsoft employee took to LinkedIn and revealed that he has been looking for a new job since he got laid off but even after applying to more than 1,000 places, he could not secure any position.
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Microsoft Is Deprioritizing Third-Party Ad Tech Amid Reorgs And Layoffs
Microsoft’s purchase of Xandr from AT&T in late 2021 might have looked like an embrace of third-party ad tech.
But while parts of the Xandr tech are considered valuable by Microsoft, the future of Xandr as an SSP integrated with thousands of outside publishers is in doubt.
Since completing the acquisition in June of last year, Microsoft Advertising has shifted its focus to first-party products and integrations to win and secure key accounts, such as Netflix, according to multiple sources with direct knowledge of recent changes within the group.
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Yet because layoffs have affected every part of Microsoft, there are fewer people to handle support tickets.
Due to the layoffs and restructuring, there are also “more demands” on the Xandr group now, said one Microsoft Advertising employee who’s been with AppNexus since 2015. Those demands come from internal stakeholders such as Microsoft Azure, Bing and other high-priority units in the company.