World
More than 8 in 10 Europeans do not trust US tech firms with their data
A survey across six countries puts numbers on something European governments have been acting on for a while: the assumption that American…
Tagged “cloud”
Technology
What probably broke inside Microsoft, according to the people reading the symptoms
Microsoft has not published a root cause. Two analysts describe the loop that fits the symptoms, and why rejoining servers can make an…
World
Microsoft says it is ‘deeply sorry’, and names what broke
Nearly 24 hours in, Microsoft apologised and gave a cause: a change made during a network capacity upgrade. Not a cyber-attack, and not AI…
Bangladesh
The Microsoft outage hit Bangladesh too, and offices lost a working day
It began at 11:32pm Thursday and ran past lunch on Friday. For corporate offices here that run on Microsoft 365, the whole day’s work…
World
A global Microsoft outage took out Outlook, Teams and Copilot
Microsoft says servers became unexpectedly unavailable and the load fell on everything else. For organisations that run on Microsoft 365…