This time, the issue is with Windows services.
Downdetectorshowsthat Minecraft players outage reports peaked around 9:30a.m.
ET, but they continued into the middle of the day.
Microsoft is currently dealing with an Azure outage that has taken down cloud services ranging from Windows 365 to Minecraft.Photo: Drew Angerer (Getty Images)
Similar reportsregardingXbox Liveshow theres some amount of service disruption.
Meanwhile, users outage reports forMicrosoft 365seem to have tapered off since this morning.
Microsoft confirmed in a Twitterpostat around noon ET thatthere were someongoing issueswith the companys cloud services.
Microsoftconfirmedissues regarding the tech giants Azure cloud services starting around 7:45 a.m. Services were improving from about 10 a.m. More details will be provided as they become available on the Azure status page.
For its part, CrowdStrikeblamedan issue with its patch-testing softwarefor the colossal Windows 11 failure.
The outage impacted airlines and airports worldwide, grounding planes and causing travel chaos for days after.
The company tried to mollify impacted customers with somefaulty gift cards.
He also called for Windows to change its resilience strategies to avoid more outages on the worlds most-used OS.
Part of this would be looking for ways to move away from on-premises solutions to cloud management solutions.
The bigger issue is that so many machines currently depend on the same services.
So once they experience an issue, we see widespread outages that impact millions of people simultaneously.
When tech companies monopolize to the extent they do, these interruptions willimpact more and moreof our interconnected world.
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