I can’t get the page to load but there is definitely an outage right now. They posted to the admin portal service health about an hour ago that they were looking at issues with Exchange online but it’s affecting Teams, Sharepoint too.
I can’t get the page to load but there is definitely an outage right now. They posted to the admin portal service health about an hour ago that they were looking at issues with Exchange online but it’s affecting Teams, Sharepoint too.
Exchange is complex enough that you need a team of people to maintain it.
It’s also exposed to the internet and to end users in such a way that makes it a security target.
Keeping up with it is/was difficult, and the cost to have Microsoft do it is pretty cheap all things considered.
Every once in a while a competitor shows up but really the last competitor was groupwise.