Microsoft Azure Confesses: 'Oops, We Broke the Internet Again!'
On October 29, 2025, Microsoftās cloud giant Azure pulled a classic 'oops' moment, triggering outages in Microsoft 365, Xbox, Minecraft, and major brands like Starbucks, Alaska Airlines, and Capital One. The culprit? An 'inadvertent configuration change' mixed with DNS woes ā corporate speak for 'someone hit the wrong button.' Services ranging from Azure Maps to Microsoft Defender limped along starting 16:00 UTC, with the fix due by 00:40 UTC. Meanwhile, Xbox players had to restart consoles like it was a bad 2007 reboot. Alaska Airlines got so desperate, customers had to use actual human beings to get boarding passes. Microsoft earnings report? Yeah, their site still staggered like a traumatized Windows 95.
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Microsoft's Azure made 'inadvertent configuration change' the new corporate euphemism for 'we potatoed the entire internet.' Xbox users had to babysit their consoles, airlines acted like it was 1999, and Starbucks couldn't even serve a website-sized latte.
Microsoftās Azure went full toddler today: threw a tantrum, broke Xbox, Starbucks, AND my work email. Someone file a missing config report.
Azure outage moved slower than customer support on Black Friday ā affecting Microsoft 365, Xbox, and causing airlines to believe in magic boarding passes.
Source: Theverge | Published: 10/29/2025 | Author: Emma Roth
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