Smart technologies are too much

The Microsoft outage yesterday and today is causing me all sorts of problems.

A payment to a company on their email link has been showing as pending on my bank account. It’s a custom order for necessary work to my house. I use Apple but the company is probably not receiving my emails because they haven’t replied.

Emails to some others haven’t been received. Fortunately, only one email is urgent.

My prescription is lost in the system somewhere between the GP Surgery and the Pharmacy. 

Links to online products are corrupted. 

Online and email technology isn’t a good thing to rely on, but there are no viable alternatives. I wonder how much it would cost the country to reconnect the old telephone wiring so that people would have an alternative. At least fax machines would work.  Can’t cost that much compared to the billions that goes missing through a corrupt core of tax evaders.

My smart phone and other ‘smart’ devices aren’t smart enough to fix the issue. Unless Microsoft fixes the issue soon, I’ll  be too exhausted, stressed and behind with things to switch my smart TV on. 

Is all your email disruption from Microsoft Outlook, do you think? I've never used it privately, although I had to at work. It seems to indicate that far more businesses depend on MS Outlook than I had assumed, which is ridiculous when there are so many options out there.

MS want me to update my computer, but I'm not touching the update until this is fixed. The last thing I need is to have the download corrupted in transit.

I don’t know if it’s all Outlook but generally a lot of firms use Outlook within a package of Microsoft products, so it can affect how the whole company functions. I can’t tell from previous email addresses. Even some people in a private capacity have Microsoft Office. I’m assuming my inability to make transactions and establish communication is caused by Microsoft’s issues. I have never used Outlook privately either. Sticking with Apple although I wouldn’t think they are immune from system failure. 

My bank has now posted a note on the app to say that they are having issues and payment transactions may be delayed. I wish I had known that before I made the payment as things are in limbo. It would have taken less time to drive to Belfast and deliver the money in cash. That’s assuming that cash machines are still working and haven’t run out of money. 

This caused me so much stress last night, especially since I didn’t know that it was an issue affecting many. I assumed there was something wrong with my system or something I was doing incorrectly. 

I think you’re wise not to update your computer for now. 

I don’t know if it’s all Outlook but generally a lot of firms use Outlook within a package of Microsoft products, so it can affect how the whole company functions. I can’t tell from previous email addresses. Even some people in a private capacity have Microsoft Office. I’m assuming my inability to make transactions and establish communication is caused by Microsoft’s issues. I have never used Outlook privately either. Sticking with Apple although I wouldn’t think they are immune from system failure. 

My bank has now posted a note on the app to say that they are having issues and payment transactions may be delayed. I wish I had known that before I made the payment as things are in limbo. It would have taken less time to drive to Belfast and deliver the money in cash. That’s assuming that cash machines are still working and haven’t run out of money. 

This caused me so much stress last night, especially since I didn’t know that it was an issue affecting many. I assumed there was something wrong with my system or something I was doing incorrectly. 

I think you’re wise not to update your computer for now.