Microsoft hit with Azure, 365 outage ahead of quarterly earnings report

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella departs following a meeting of the White House Task Force on AI Education in the East Room of the White House in Washington on Sept. 4, 2025.Microsoft was hit with outages in its Azure cloud and 365 services on Wednesday, hours before the company's scheduled earnings release. Users reported problems on social media accessing their sites and services running on Microsoft's products, and the company's website was inaccessible. The problems began around 11:40 a.m. ET, according to D ...