cloud dependency

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...

In the rapidly evolving landscape of Windows operating systems, a recent incident has thrust Microsoft’s user policies into the spotlight, sparking heated debate across social media, forums, and mainstream tech outlets. On June 17th, a Windows 11 user shared a deeply frustrating experience on...

Microsoft 365 users across multiple regions were left frustrated on Monday evening as core productivity services, including Outlook and Teams, experienced widespread outages. The disruption, which quickly gained traction on social media platforms such as X (formerly known as Twitter)...

The Danish Ministry for Digitalization has taken a bold step in Europe’s ongoing quest for digital sovereignty by publicly committing to replace Microsoft software with open-source alternatives, starting with the ministry's switch to LibreOffice. Caroline Olsen, Denmark's Minister for Digital...

A hush fell over the global digital landscape as a significant outage swept through Google Cloud, sending shockwaves far beyond the corridors of the tech giant itself. On Thursday, hundreds of high-profile internet services experienced turbulence as Google’s cloud infrastructure—a backbone...

A sweeping outage rippled across the digital landscape, rattling the world’s most essential cloud services and exposing the fragility of the modern internet’s backbone. For hours, enterprises and everyday users alike found themselves in the crosshairs of a multi-layered technical crisis, as...

When the digital world’s humming infrastructure stutters, the effects are both immediate and widespread. Such was the case this Thursday, when a significant outage originating from Google Cloud rippled through the internet, flattening a range of essential services from Cloudflare to globally...