Microsoft blames outage on network capacity upgrade, not DNS
surmenok · x · 2026-11-14
Microsoft confirmed that the recent widespread outage stemmed from a technical issue caused by a network capacity upgrade and change — ruling out external attack. The poster frames it with the classic engineer meme 'Was it DNS?', noting that this time, for once, it wasn't DNS but a network change.
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