Here's a polite and final response from me.
I never said you orchestrated, but it is misinformation to say that it is a "Microsoft outage".
If you know that it is not caused by Microsoft, then you can't continue stating that it's a "Microsoft outage" unless your intention is to misinform people.
Here's the definition of misinformation.
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With 21% market share and the #1 position according to
Statista, I wouldn't qualify CBC as being a minor player - they're actually the only one in that report with nationwide coverage. CNN is 3rd at 15% and BBC is at 12% in 5th according to that same report. And be mindful that most of the outlets in the report don't even serve the region I reside in. (And yes, I take issue with Statista's numbers because they seem to be very Toronto-focused, but I can't find numbers more specific to my market).
CityNews is definitely a smaller player; they are relatively new, opening their office in my region in the early 2010s. And I have never heard of The Express until today, so I guess they're a very small player as well outside the United Kingdom; I even had to test their website with Facebook to make sure they're legit - it's forbidden to post news on Meta's platforms.
What I did is I used the sources for which I can get the
1st reporting title.
Obviously, I don't subscribe to any of the outlets you provided, because they actually don't serve the market I'm in. Thus making them pretty much irrelevant to my own life as a Canadian resident. So I can't even retrieve that information using that criteria (1st reporting title). Side note, the two articles I provided don't have those titles anymore; they were amended as the situation developed - which is the correct approach; same situation at the BBC and, from what I could find, at The Express.
8.5 million computers, according to an estimate provided by Microsoft on Saturday.
It’s the first time that a number has been put on the glitch that is still causing problems around the world.
www.bbc.com
And this is the part of the post where I advocate for myself.
You make it really difficult to not take it personal.
I feel like your posts are written with in an extremely agressive and rude tone, with the intent to laugh into one's face, most (over 75%) of the time. It makes it extremely difficult to make it stay calm and collected. The number of times I rewrote my posts to remove the more rude portions really shows for itself.
And I will never excuse myself for speaking up and trying to correct misinformation - especially on an ICT-focused forum for a situation that occurred in the ICT field. And, just in case you didn't know, ICT stands for
Information and Communications Technologies.
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