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An ex-Microsoft engineer recently detailed how Azure’s rushed launch, talent exodus, and AI hype left Microsoft’s cloud fragile and struggling to compete.The American file hosting and cloud computing service owned by Microsoft, Azure logo seen displayed on a smartphone with an Artificial Intelligence (AI) chip and symbol in the background.An ex-Microsoft engineer recently detailed how Azure’s rushed launch, talent exodus, and AI hype left Microsoft’s cloud fragile and struggling to compete.

Microsoft's widely used Azure cloud computing platform is experiencing an outage, leading to Office 365, Teams, Xbox, and more going down.Microsoft Azure rack