AI and layoffs blamed
Many commenters suspect brain drain, layoffs and over-reliance on AI tooling left Microsoft unable to understand or fix its own systems, and joke accordingly.
Plausible technical cascade explanations
Others speculate about concrete causes like bad pattern updates, CPU-heavy patches, or backlogged email traffic overwhelming restarted capacity, while some warn outsiders rarely guess outage causes correctly.
Nobody will actually leave Microsoft
Some hope the outage drives migration away, but others argue big organisations have no real alternative and will double down, as after Crowdstrike.