Azure cloud computing platform took down a long list of services from Xbox Live and Microsoft 365 to critical systems for airlines and banks.

Microsoft has reported an 18% increase in quarterly sales, reaching $77.7 billion, surpassing Wall Street expectations

The company is seeing more demand for its cloud computing and AI services than it can keep up with, a challenge that is supercharging profits.

Meta and Microsoft said they planned to spend even more on AI in 2026, and fears of a bubble keep mounting.

The Microsoft Store has joined the growing list of services affected by a major outage sweeping across the tech giant’s ecosystem. Alongside Azure, Teams, Outlook, and Microsoft 365, the Store’s downtime is compounding users' frustrations and fueling speculation about what’s really going on.

On Wednesday, the company reported spending a larger-than-expected $34.9 billion on new projects in the three months through Sept. 30 as it races to build data centers that provide computing power to fuel the A.I. boom, a 74 percent increase from a year earlier.

Microsoft says users of its Azure cloud portal may be not be able to access Office 365, Minecraft or other services due to issues with its domain name system

Microsoft services including Outlook, Minecraft and Xbox Cloud Gaming experienced widespread outages Tuesday, disrupting access for millions of users worldwide. The company said it was investigating the cause of the outage, which began early in the day and affected sign-ins and online gameplay across multiple platforms.

Microsoft 365 and its Azure cloud computing platform were hit with DNS issues, similar to the recent AWS outage.

A global outage of Microsoft Corp.’s Azure cloud service is impacting operations of Alaska Air Group Inc., less than a week after the carrier canceled flights due to a data system failure.