Pluralistic: I told you so (13 Nov 2026) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
Cory Doctorow's "I told you so" post argues that Microsoft's two-day outage, which grounded governments and businesses unable to meet without Office 365 and Teams, proves his earlier warning that the world's dependence on Microsoft cloud services is a digital sovereignty risk. He ties the outage to Microsoft's convicted-monopoly history, $30 billion in buybacks and 60,000 layoffs, judges the company too big to live, and proposes bright-line antitrust tests for breaking up monopolists and unwinding mergers.