LibreOffice Throws Shade At Microsoft Over Outage

LibreOffice is throwing shade on Microsoft in the wake of its outage, one that impacted Microsoft 365 and a huge number of the company’s customers.

Microsoft experienced a major outage Thursday, impacting Exchange Online, Teams, SharePoint Online, Copilot, Microsoft Graph, Defender XDR, Intune, Planner, To Do, Power Apps, Purview, Fabric, Universal Print, some Windows 365 Cloud PCs, as well as some admin tools. The company blamed a network issue, but restoring service has stretched into a second day, with repeated apologies for the issues customers are experiencing.

In the midst of the crisis, LibreOffice has taken to X to tout the benefits of local-first, open source software.

LibreOffice actually works 365 days a year. Just saying.

— LibreOffice (@LibreOffice) | November 13, 2026

Microsoft’s outage underscores why many companies are exploring cloud repatriation. The cloud’s initial promise of lower costs and instant scalability has been replaced by skyrocketing monthly fees, increased security concerns, and total dependence on remote services not experiencing outages.

After spending years moving its focus from its Windows OS and offline Office to cloud-based services, Microsoft may have given cloud critics their greatest argument yet for the benefits of cloud repatriation.