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Microsoft's cloud backbone entered emergency recovery mode after a pervasive outage centered on Azure Front Door (AFD) disrupted Microsoft’s own services and thousands of customer endpoints worldwide, forcing engineers to roll back to a “last known good” configuration, freeze further AFD changes, and reintroduce traffic in carefully staged waves while residual authentication and routing errors persisted. Background / Overview Azure Front Door is Microsoft’s global, Layer‑7 edge and...

AMD’s latest Radeon Software: Adrenalin Edition 25.10.2 arrives as a consequential, mixed‑bag update — shipping day‑one game tuning for Battlefield 6 and Vampire: The Masquerade – Bloodlines 2, introducing forward‑looking GPU features such as initial Work Graphs support for RX 9000 series and expanded Vulkan extensions, while quietly signaling a shift in platform baseline by publishing a Windows 11 (21H2+) compatibility listing that omits Windows 10. Background AMD’s Adrenalin driver stream...

A weird regression in a recent Windows 11 preview update is leaving behind “ghost” Task Manager processes every time users close the app with the window Close (X) button, so that each reopen spawns another running taskmgr.exe instance — a behaviour confirmed by community testing and reproduced across multiple systems. Background The issue is tied to an optional, non‑security preview update released on October 28, 2025 — identified as KB5067036, shipping OS builds 26200.7019 and 26100.7019...

Windows 11 users installing the optional October preview update (KB5067036) have reported a baffling Task Manager bug that leaves the app running after it’s closed, spawning duplicate taskmgr.exe processes that can quietly eat memory and CPU and make a PC feel sluggish. Background / Overview KB5067036 is an optional, non‑security preview cumulative update published for Windows 11 in late October 2025 that ships fixes and a handful of visible feature updates — notably a redesigned Start menu...

Microsoft has set a hard servicing cutoff: Windows 11 version 23H2 (Home and Pro) will stop receiving monthly security and quality updates on November 11, 2025, and any consumer PC still on that build after the date will be running an unsupported release unless upgraded. Background / Overview Windows 11 moved to a versioned, annual feature-update cadence years ago. Each named release (for example, 21H2, 22H2, 23H2, 24H2, 25H2) carries its own published servicing window, and that window...

Microsoft’s published GPO approach for rolling out Secure Boot certificate updates gives domain administrators a single, auditable toggle to opt fleets into the OS‑driven Secure Boot key rollout — but it also bundles irreversible firmware changes, telemetry trade‑offs, and a strong dependency on OEM firmware readiness that must be planned, tested, and coordinated before mass deployment. Background Microsoft is replacing the aging Secure Boot certificate chain that has protected the Windows...

Microsoft’s latest Copilot update arms knowledge workers with two conversational, no-code builders — App Builder and Workflows — that let licensed enterprise employees describe an app or an automation in plain English and get a working application, dashboard, or multi‑step flow inside Microsoft 365 minutes later. Background / Overview Microsoft’s push to turn Copilot from an advisory assistant into an agentic platform has been steady and deliberate. Over the past year the company has rolled...

Microsoft’s Azure cloud platform suffered a high‑visibility, multi‑hour outage on October 29, 2025 after an inadvertent configuration change to Azure Front Door (AFD)—the company’s global edge and application‑delivery fabric—knocked Microsoft‑hosted and customer‑fronted services offline, forcing engineers into an emergency rollback and traffic rebalancing that restored most services only after several hours of mitigation and extended monitoring. Background / Overview Azure Front Door (AFD)...

Microsoft’s latest annual letter and fiscal results make a blunt argument: the company has positioned artificial intelligence at the center of a multi‑decade strategy and is already converting that focus into measurable growth across cloud, productivity, and platform businesses. Fiscal year 2025 revenue rose to $281.7 billion, with Azure surpassing $75 billion in annualized revenue and Copilot‑branded AI experiences crossing significant adoption milestones. These headline numbers reflect...

Microsoft is rolling out a focused update to how Windows presents update names, replacing long, machine-oriented strings with concise, human-friendly titles that lead with a clear classification (for example, Security Update or Preview Update) followed by the canonical KB number and a build or component version—a change designed to improve readability across Settings, Update history, and release-health surfaces. Background For years, Windows update entries have mixed essential identifiers...

Microsoft’s cloud fabric suffered a high‑impact disruption that knocked Outlook, Xbox sign‑ins and key Microsoft admin portals offline for hours — a problem Microsoft says was triggered by an inadvertent configuration change in Azure’s global edge service, Azure Front Door — and security experts are urging users and administrators to be vigilant because outages like this create rich opportunities for scams, token abuse, and operational drift. Background / Overview Major public cloud outages...

Microsoft’s cloud platform faltered for much of an evening this week, exposing brittle dependencies that ripple through retail, transport and public services and forcing British and European organisations to rethink how they buy and protect essential digital infrastructure. Background The incident began in the late afternoon UTC on Wednesday, October 29, when Microsoft logged a critical incident affecting Azure Front Door (AFD) — the company’s global edge and application delivery fabric —...

The internet’s backbone flickered twice in quick succession this autumn, and the world noticed: Amazon Web Services (AWS) suffered a major DNS-linked failure centered in its US‑EAST‑1 region on October 20, 2025, and Microsoft Azure experienced a broad outage tied to an Azure Front Door configuration change on October 29, 2025. Both incidents were resolved, but their proximate causes — DNS and control‑plane configuration errors — and their outsized downstream impacts have reignited an urgent...

Microsoft engineers declared Azure services restored after a widespread global outage that began on October 29, 2025, bringing Microsoft 365, Xbox Live, the Azure Portal and thousands of third‑party websites to a crawl before a staged rollback and traffic rebalancing returned services to normal for most customers. Background Microsoft Azure is one of the world’s hyperscale cloud platforms, and a core part of Microsoft’s own SaaS stack. A central piece of that architecture is Azure Front...

Nine days after a high‑impact AWS outage, Microsoft’s Azure and Microsoft 365 environments suffered a separate, global degradation that again exposed how tightly the internet and public services are bound to a handful of hyperscalers—and why that concentration now reads like a strategic risk for governments, enterprises and everyday users. Background / Overview On October 20, 2025, Amazon Web Services (AWS) experienced a multi‑hour failure centered in the US‑EAST‑1 region that was traced to...

Microsoft is quietly reshaping how Windows tells you what it just installed — and the change matters more than it looks at first glance, because the new naming scheme shifts update labels from dense, machine-oriented strings into short, human-friendly names that prioritize the KB number, build/version, and a clear classification such as “Security Update” or “Preview Update.” Background Microsoft has long struggled with the tradeoff between machine-accurate metadata and human-readable update...

Installing Windows on a Chromebook sounds like a tempting hack: the familiar flexibility of Windows combined with the slim hardware and long battery life of a Chromebook. The reality, however, is less glamourous and more pragmatic — after years of incremental improvements on both sides, the trade-offs required to shoehorn Windows into Chromebook hardware usually leave users with a slower, less secure, and more fragile device than either OS alone would provide. The argument that Windows...

Alaska Airlines and Hawaiian Airlines saw critical customer-facing systems disrupted on Oct. 29 after a widespread Microsoft Azure outage traced to an Azure Front Door configuration error, forcing airlines to fall back to manual processes and prompting renewed scrutiny of cloud dependency and airline IT resilience. Background The outage began when Microsoft engineers detected elevated latencies and gateway errors for services fronted by Azure Front Door (AFD), the company’s global edge and...

A high‑visibility outage on October 29, 2025 knocked large swaths of Microsoft Azure — including Azure Front Door (AFD), Microsoft 365 web surfaces, Xbox Live, and thousands of customer sites — offline for hours, and the failure, which Microsoft attributed to an “inadvertent configuration change” in AFD, sharpened an already intense industry debate about the systemic fragility of hyperscale cloud architectures. Background and overview On the afternoon of October 29, 2025, Microsoft’s public...

Microsoft’s cloud control plane hit a major snag on October 29 when an inadvertent configuration change in Azure Front Door (AFD) — Microsoft’s global Layer‑7 edge and content delivery fabric — triggered a cascading outage that knocked Microsoft 365, the Azure Portal, Xbox/Minecraft sign‑ins and a wide set of customer websites and services offline for hours, forcing emergency rollbacks and staged node recovery to restore global service. Background Azure Front Door (AFD) is not a simple CDN...