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Microsoft’s Azure control-plane update and a follow-on automation mistake turned routine maintenance into a high-profile availability event that left users around the world unable to load the Azure Portal — and laid bare the practical limits of centralized global routing services like Azure...

Microsoft’s cloud productivity stack was briefly knocked off balance on October 9, 2025, when an Azure Front Door (AFD) capacity failure interrupted sign-ins and access to Microsoft 365 services across Europe, the Middle East and Africa, blocking administrators from the Microsoft 365 admin...

Microsoft’s cloud stack suffered a high‑visibility disruption that left Microsoft 365 users locked out of Teams, Azure admin consoles and even Minecraft authentication for several hours, with engineers tracing the fault to Azure Front Door capacity and routing issues that required targeted...

On October 9, 2025, a short but high-impact disruption in Microsoft’s edge network left thousands of organizations with delayed mail, failed sign‑ins, and broken access to Microsoft 365 admin and Azure portals — a failure traced to capacity loss and a network misconfiguration in Azure Front Door...

Microsoft's cloud productivity stack suffered a major disruption on October 9, 2025, when a cascading outage tied to Azure Front Door (AFD) left thousands of Microsoft 365 users — including those relying on Microsoft Teams, Exchange Online, admin portals and even some gaming services — unable to...

Microsoft’s cloud fabric hiccup on October 9 produced one of the more disruptive service outages of the year, leaving Microsoft 365 users locked out of collaboration tools like Microsoft Teams, cloud management consoles in Azure, and even authentication-backed services such as Minecraft for...

Microsoft’s productivity cloud stumbled again, but this time the interruption was short, diagnosable and — crucially — tied to the company’s edge networking fabric rather than a failure inside Office apps themselves. Background: what happened, in plain terms On Thursday, a subset of Microsoft...

Microsoft’s cloud edge fabric suffered a major disruption on October 9, 2025, when a capacity loss in Azure Front Door (AFD) produced widespread delays, TLS/certificate errors and timeouts that blocked access to the Azure and Microsoft 365 admin portals for many customers across Europe, Africa...

Microsoft’s cloud infrastructure suffered a high-impact service disruption on Thursday morning, leaving administrators and customers across Europe and parts of Africa unable to reach the Azure Portal and numerous customer-facing applications — an event Microsoft traced to a measurable capacity...

Microsoft Azure customers reported widespread trouble accessing the Azure Portal and other services on October 9, 2025, after Microsoft confirmed a capacity loss in Azure Front Door (AFD) that produced intermittent portal outages and downstream service degradation across parts of Europe and...

Microsoft 365, the ubiquitous suite that powers collaboration, productivity, and communication across enterprises globally, experienced a substantial outage that rippled throughout North America, leaving millions frustrated and raising pointed questions about the reliability of cloud-first...

For millions of businesses, educational institutions, and individual users across North America, Microsoft 365 is not just a productivity suite—it is the backbone of daily operations. On May 6th, reports flooded in from across the continent: users suddenly found themselves unable to connect to...

A wave of frustration swept across businesses and IT administrators on May 6th, as a significant Microsoft 365 outage disrupted critical cloud services across North America. The incident, which began in the early morning hours, impacted a suite of foundational tools relied upon by organizations...

A wave of disruption echoed across North America this week as users of Microsoft 365 services, including the widely deployed Teams collaboration platform, found themselves grappling with connectivity challenges and widespread accessibility issues. The outage, which persisted for several hours...

For millions of Microsoft 365 users across North America, a sudden wave of connectivity issues recently underscored how critical cloud infrastructure has become—not just for day-to-day business operations, but for the reliability and trust that underpin digital workspaces. Microsoft, one of the...

Hello Windows Insiders, today we’re releasing 20H2 Build 19042.906 (KB5000842) to the Release Preview Channel for those Insiders who are on 20H2 (Windows 10 October 2020 Update). This update includes the following improvements: We fixed an issue with zoom that occurs when using Microsoft Edge...