With dead-time dump, Microsoft revealed DDoS as cause of cloud outages

Previous claims its own software updates were the issue remain almost, kinda, plausible

In the murky world of political and corporate spin, announcing bad news on Friday afternoon – a time when few media outlets are watching, and audiences are at a low ebb – is called "taking out the trash." And that’s what Microsoft appears to have done last Friday.…

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