cloud dependency

Bojidar Bozhanov has raised a red flag: the Bulgarian government is preparing to open a public procurement and sign a new, large-scale contracting arrangement with Microsoft to cover core software and cloud services for the state administration — a move he says carries long-term risks for...

Microsoft’s Azure outage on October 29 briefly knocked Alaska Airlines’ website and mobile app offline, compounding a week of severe technology problems for the carrier and underscoring how edge‑level cloud failures can produce immediate, real‑world disruption for airlines and their customers...

A widespread Microsoft Azure outage today disrupted online check-in, mobile apps, and other key digital services for Alaska Airlines and Hawaiian Airlines, forcing travelers to queue at airports and complicating an already fragile recovery from a separate IT failure earlier this month. The...

Electronic Arts’ Battlefield 6 is again grappling with widespread server problems as players report “Connection Failed” errors, disconnects, and high latency while Battlefield Studios investigates whether a major Amazon Web Services (AWS) outage in the US‑EAST‑1 region is the proximate cause...

In the early hours of Monday, October 20, 2025, a widespread outage in Amazon Web Services’ US‑EAST‑1 region cascaded through the internet, knocking high‑profile games and platforms offline and exposing how fragile modern gaming ecosystems can be when a single cloud region hiccups. The...

Microsoft has added a first‑class Excel function named COPILOT — an equals‑sign‑style formula that lets users call Copilot directly from the grid, pass natural‑language prompts and ranges as context, and surface AI‑generated arrays and single‑cell results that recalculate with the workbook. The...

A surge of concern ricocheted across the open-source software community last week when Mike Kaganski, a prominent LibreOffice developer, found himself locked out of his Microsoft account for seven frustrating days. This event, echoing recent reports of arbitrary account lockouts affecting...

Microsoft’s abrupt suspension of cloud service access to Nayara Energy, a leading Indian oil refiner, has sent shockwaves through the global technology and energy sectors, shining a spotlight on the increasingly complex interplay between geopolitics, corporate structure, and digital sovereignty...

Microsoft’s recent suspension of Nayara Energy’s access to its own data has ignited a storm of debate within India’s tech and policy spheres, highlighting profound risks surrounding national digital sovereignty and global cloud dependency. On July 22, 2025, Microsoft, the world’s largest...

Microsoft Outlook, a linchpin of both business and personal communication, has recently endured a spate of outages that have underscored the vulnerabilities in even the most trusted digital tools. For users across the globe who rely on Outlook for everything from time-sensitive business...

On July 10, 2025, Microsoft Outlook experienced a significant global outage, disrupting email access for millions of users worldwide. The disruption began around 6:20 p.m. Eastern Time on Wednesday and persisted into Thursday, affecting both individual and enterprise users. Scope and Impact of...

Here’s a summary of the July 2025 Microsoft Outlook outage, with information from both the linked news article and official sources: Outage Timeline & Scope: The outage began on Wednesday night (July 9, 2025) and extended to Thursday morning (July 10). It affected thousands of users globally...

The recent global Microsoft Outlook outage sent ripples throughout the digital world, leaving thousands of users unable to access critical communication and collaboration tools. For countless businesses and individuals who have come to depend on the stability and reliability of Microsoft 365...

Microsoft Outlook users around the world found themselves locked out of critical communications this week as the iconic email service suffered one of the longest and most disruptive outages in recent memory. As screens flashed the now-familiar “Something went wrong” error, what began as a...

Microsoft Outlook, the backbone of digital communication for millions of individuals and organizations globally, suffered a widespread outage that left users frustrated and, in some cases, outright stranded from their essential emails, calendars, and contacts. The disruption reverberated across...

A sweeping disruption struck thousands of professionals and organizations globally when Microsoft Teams, the communications backbone for millions, suffered a significant outage. This event echoed across workplaces, classrooms, and remote collaboration sessions, highlighting both the importance...

For organizations and individuals across the globe, the reliability of cloud-based productivity tools has become paramount in maintaining smooth operations, timely communications, and effective data collection. On July 4, 2025, this dependency was underscored dramatically as Microsoft Forms—a...

In the predawn hours of a recent Saturday, tens of thousands of Microsoft users awoke to a digital world in flux. Core productivity tools like Outlook, Teams, and Microsoft 365 were suddenly and unexpectedly out of reach for millions across the globe. For many, the incident was more than a...

Microsoft 365 has established itself as the backbone of many organizations’ productivity frameworks, delivering critical tools like Teams, Outlook, OneDrive, and Forms as part of a tightly integrated ecosystem. Yet even the best-engineered cloud platforms are not immune to disruption, and...

As Windows 10 approaches its much-publicized end of life, Microsoft is offering users a trio of enticing exit ramps—if not from the operating system itself, then at least from the looming specter of unpatched vulnerabilities. With the mainstream support cutoff date on the near horizon, the...