Microsoft's Windows Azure suffered its ... or "initializing" states for extended periods. Steve Marx, a member of Microsoft's Azure team, acknowledged the outage in a post to the Windows Azure ...

"We’ve begun a period of extended monitoring to ensure this continues, while we continue to investigate the cause of the impact." This is Azure's second outage in a week, following a disruption ...

In what appears to be the third major Microsoft service outage this week, the company confirmed that the portal for its Azure cloud platform was down as of Friday morning. On its Azure status page ...

The latest outage will come as a blow to the software giant in its bid to rival Amazon and others in the cloud computing space. Azure was launched by Microsoft back in 2009 and has had several ...

NEW YORK: A global Microsoft Azure outage that impacted a range of services for consumers Tuesday – from reports of stalling Outlook emails to trouble ordering on Starbucks' mobile app – was ...