The incident left businesses across North America staring at error messages instead of their essential work tools.

Microsoft's stock is up just 1% over the past year.

Microsoft had a cloud outage that interrupted service for Outlook, Fabric, Viva, Defender and other parts of its portfolio.

Microsoft confirmed that a recent Windows update is blocking customers from accessing their Microsoft 365 Cloud PC sessions.

Microsoft will provide Azure cloud service offerings to support the Air Force Cloud One program and its users.