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Azure just keeps having problems. And a recent incident happened while their CEO was speaking at a conference in Sydney “focused on showing off how Microsoft’s cloud technology can have a transformative impact on businesses.” While it’s easy to pile on with Azure, the situation is endemic to the cloud environment. Not withstanding my recent post, cloud implementations still…
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Microsoft Azure has had another round of problems. Microsoft Office 365 users in Europe unable to access mailboxes for a full day Microsoft cloud services see global authentication outage Microsoft threw Level 3 under the bus on the second outage. On the Azure status page, Microsoft indicated that the source of the problem is with Level 3, an US-based…
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I’m a regular listener to TWiT’s Security Now podcast with Steve Gibson. On a recent podcast Steve mentioned AV-Comparatives‘ anti-virus testing. If you’re a regular reader of this blog you also know I’m a fan of Windows Defender. AV-Comparatives’ September 2018 test (PDF) showed that Windows Defender was in the very top performers. Steve’s assessment was: Given that Microsoft is one of the 6…
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tl;dr What should you do? First, I’m moderately aggressive in applying updates across a variety of systems and I’ve not had any problems. Second, look at Woody Leonard’s post on ComputerWorld. There’s some hyperbole there but overall not bad advice. So here’s the background… Microsoft has had a bad month with Windows 10. They’ve had problems with Display Audio issues (jpeg), file deletions (archive.is), HP…