Massive Azure outage knocks out Microsoft 365 and Xbox - what we know so far

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ZDNET's key takeaways

• Microsoft Azure went down globally today.
• Microsoft customer-facing services such as Microsoft 365 and Outlook were affected.
• We don't know why it happened or when it will be fixed.

Last week, Amazon Web Services (AWS) went down, and many of us were miserable. This week, it's Microsoft Azure's turn to fall down and go boom, and once more, we're pretty darn unhappy about it. 

Microsoft says this latest Azure outage began at approximately noon ET on October 29. However, Downdetector, which relies on user reports, shows the problems surfaced earlier, around 11:40 a.m. 

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