Breaking News: Microsoft has revealed
the cause of the massive outage that disrupted services worldwide. I’m
Emily, and here’s what we know. On July 19th, a major outage impacted Microsoft's
Azure cloud platform, causing significant disruptions to services like Microsoft 365 and
Teams. The cause? A botched software update. Microsoft confirmed that the update
inadvertently exposed a vulnerability, leading to a surge in traffic that overwhelmed
their systems. This left millions of users unable to access crucial services for hours.
Among the affected services were popular applications like Outlook, Teams, and
OneDrive. The incident highlights the growing reliance on cloud services and
the ripple effects of technical issues. Microsoft has since rolled back the update and
implemented additional safeguards to prevent future incidents. For the latest updates on
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