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Midday on Wednesday, October 29, thousands of organizations and consumers worldwide experienced a major disruption that left Microsoft Azure, Microsoft 365 admin surfaces, and a wide range of dependent services intermittently unavailable or sluggish — an incident Microsoft attributed to a problematic configuration change in its global edge routing fabric and subsequently moved to roll back to a “last known good” state while rerouting traffic and recovering nodes. Background / Overview On...

Thousands of Microsoft customers worldwide woke to interrupted workflows and unreachable portals on October 29 after a configuration error in Microsoft’s edge network knocked Azure and Microsoft 365 services offline for hours, forcing emergency rollbacks, traffic failovers and a frantic scramble to restore global routing and identity flows. Background On the afternoon of October 29 (approximately 16:00 UTC), Microsoft publicly acknowledged a widespread loss of availability affecting services...

If you’ve ever stared at your computer and wondered which operating system (and exact version) is actually running under the hood, you’re not alone — and it’s far easier to discover than most people think. This guide walks through simple, reliable ways to identify the exact version of Windows, macOS, and ChromeOS on any machine, explains why the difference between an “edition,” “version,” and “build” matters, and gives practical tips for troubleshooting, security checks, and enterprise...

Microsoft engineers reported that they had begun restoring service after a global Azure outage triggered by an inadvertent configuration change in Azure Front Door (AFD), an incident that knocked Microsoft 365, the Azure Portal, Xbox/Minecraft sign‑ins and thousands of customer sites offline before a staged rollback and traffic‑rebalancing plan began to reduce the outage’s scope. Background Azure Front Door is Microsoft’s global, Layer‑7 edge and application‑delivery fabric: a distributed...

Microsoft’s Copilot has a new face: a deliberately non‑human, animated avatar called Mico that Microsoft unveiled as the visible anchor of a sweeping “Copilot Fall Release” aimed at turning reactive chat into a persistent, voice‑first collaborator — and the company is explicitly pitching it as what Clippy should have been, not what Clippy became. Background / Overview Microsoft announced a major consumer push for Copilot in a staged fall rollout that bundles personality, long‑term memory...

Microsoft’s Azure cloud platform suffered a high‑visibility global outage on October 29, 2025 after an inadvertent configuration change in Azure Front Door (AFD) caused widespread DNS, routing and authentication failures that cascaded through Microsoft 365, Outlook, Copilot, Xbox Live, and numerous third‑party sites; Microsoft moved quickly to freeze AFD changes, roll back to a last‑known‑good configuration, and recover edge nodes, restoring service progressively over the following hours...

A widespread outage tied to an Azure Front Door configuration change knocked Microsoft Azure and a large swath of dependent services offline on October 29, 2025, forcing engineers into an emergency rollback while customers and critical industries scrambled to route around disrupted infrastructure. Background Microsoft’s Azure Front Door (AFD) is a globally distributed Layer‑7 edge and application delivery service that performs TLS termination, global HTTP(S) routing, Web Application Firewall...

Amazon Web Services reported that it was “operating normally” after a fresh wave of outage reports on Wednesday, insisting that Downdetector spikes and social-media complaints did not reflect any active incidents on AWS systems — even as Microsoft simultaneously logged an Azure disruption tied to an inadvertent configuration change. Background Cloud outages are rarely a single-company problem anymore. Over the last decade the internet’s backbone has consolidated around a few hyperscale...

Millions of users and thousands of businesses worldwide were knocked offline for hours after a widespread Microsoft outage tied to Azure Front Door left Azure, Microsoft 365, Outlook, Teams, Xbox and other services unreachable or sluggish on October 29–30, 2025, exposing how a single configuration change in a global traffic management layer can cascade into a multi-hour, cross‑service disruption that affected everything from corporate email to airline check‑in systems. Background Microsoft’s...

Samsung has released a Windows beta of Samsung Internet, bringing its mobile browser to PCs for the first time and tying desktop browsing into the broader Galaxy ecosystem with cross‑device sync, Galaxy AI features and a privacy‑forward dashboard. Background / Overview Samsung Internet has been a quietly powerful alternative on Galaxy phones for years: a Chromium‑based browser with strong privacy controls, extension support, and increasingly visible AI tools on mobile. The new PC beta is...

Satya Nadella’s claim that the “Copilot Stack orchestrates the AI breakthrough” is more than a CEO soundbite — it’s Microsoft’s public thesis for turning raw model advances into reliable, auditable, and monetizable enterprise workflows, and the company has both architectural ingredients and economic incentives to make that thesis credible. Background / Overview Microsoft’s recent investor and product messaging frames Copilot not as a single assistant but as a layered platform: an...

Microsoft has quietly given Copilot on Windows a practical new ability: Vision can now accept typed inputs and return typed outputs, letting you share one or more app windows or a desktop region and type questions about what Copilot sees, with replies appearing in the same Copilot chat pane rather than only as spoken coaching. Background / Overview Copilot’s Vision capability is Microsoft’s effort to make the PC assistant truly multimodal — able to see what’s on your screen, hear your voice...

Microsoft’s cloud fabric hit a global snag that blanked sign‑ins, timed out checkouts and produced a livestream of memes across social media as engineers worked to roll back a change and bring services back online. Background / Overview The disruption began as a routing and DNS‑related degradation in Microsoft’s edge layer during the global workday, producing widespread timeouts and authentication failures for both Microsoft’s own properties and countless third‑party sites that rely on...

Ava Risk Group’s hybrid Annual General Meeting proceeded in person in Melbourne despite a last‑minute disruption to its virtual component after a global outage that hit Microsoft’s Azure platform, with the company warning shareholders that online participation and voting could be interrupted while its provider works to restore service; Ava said it was working with the Lumi team on recovery and estimated the online platform would be available by 10:30 am AEDT, while cautioning that further...

Microsoft’s global cloud backbone experienced a high‑visibility disruption on October 29, 2025, when an inadvertent configuration change in Azure Front Door (AFD) — Microsoft’s global Layer‑7 edge and application delivery service — triggered routing, DNS and authentication failures that knocked the Azure portal, Microsoft 365 management surfaces, Xbox/Minecraft sign‑ins and thousands of customer sites into intermittent or full outage while engineers raced to roll back the change and restore...

Microsoft’s cloud backbone betrayed the promise of seamless scale on October 29, 2025, when a widespread Azure outage knocked Microsoft 365, Xbox services (including Game Pass and storefronts), Minecraft authentication, and thousands of customer-facing websites and portals offline for hours — an incident traced by Microsoft to a configuration change in its global edge routing fabric and mitigated only after a global rollback and painstaking node recovery. Background / Overview The outage...

Windows 10 users should treat a resurfacing adware family called FileTour as more than an annoyance: it can silently weaponize your browser, steal CPU cycles to mine cryptocurrency, and persist across reboots in ways that make detection and removal tricky. Background FileTour is not a traditional one-off virus but a packaged adware/downloader that has been observed distributing a range of unwanted programs — from aggressive adware and browser extensions to in‑browser crypto‑miners and, in...

Satya Nadella’s shorthand—that the company’s Copilot Stack “orchestrates” the AI breakthrough—is less a marketing soundbite than a strategic thesis: Microsoft argues that the real advance isn’t a single model but the systems that bind compute, data, models and user-facing agents into reliable, auditable workflows. That framing—first picked up and summarized in recent coverage—positions Copilot as the orchestration layer that turns raw model capability into everyday enterprise outcomes...

Microsoft has quietly upgraded Copilot on Windows with a major usability shift: Vision now supports text-in, text-out, turning what began as a voice-first screen‑sharing experiment into a truly multimodal assistant that can see your apps and answer typed questions directly in the Copilot chat pane. The change is being distributed as an update to the Copilot app through the Microsoft Store (package version 1.25103.107 and higher) and is rolling out to Windows Insider channels in stages, with...

A sweeping configuration failure in Microsoft’s global edge fabric on October 29, 2025, left Microsoft 365, the Azure Portal, Xbox Live, Minecraft, Microsoft Copilot and the Microsoft Store intermittently inaccessible for millions of users and caused hundreds of third‑party websites that rely on Azure Front Door to return gateway errors—an incident engineers traced to an inadvertent change in Azure Front Door that produced DNS and routing anomalies and forced Microsoft to roll back to a...