Microsoft in Trouble as Azure Breaks and Only Days After Promising Investment in "Datacentres" Construction of Actual Datacentres Paused (Expect More Azure Layoffs Very Soon)
Hours ago: Microsoft pauses construction of US$3b Wisconsin data centre
8 years ago The Register reported Microsoft adding de facto back doors to "Linux" in Azure. See "Microsoft update servers left all Azure RHEL instances hackable" among other reports (at the time). Jessica Lyons at The Register now reports that "Microsoft Azure networking snafu enters day 2" and an associate has asked: "How are the many recent Azure/Linux CVEs connected to this?"
This is what people get before the weekend for outsourcing to Microsoft (many will get the message and cancel their contract with Microsoft):
Microsoft on Friday warned Azure cloud service users may continue to experience "intermittent errors," blaming the problem on a US East regional networking service configuration change.The outage, which began around 2200 UTC on January 8, was "limited to a single zone in the East US 2 region," according to Redmond. "A network configuration issue in one of the zones resulted in three of the Storage partitions going unhealthy," reads an Azure status alert.
As a result, customers experienced "intermittent Virtual Machine connectivity issues, failures in allocating resources or communicating with resources in the region."
No wonder many people who got trapped inside Azure quit Azure, which keeps bleeding (losses and layoffs). Do not believe what Microsoft says, it doctors the numbers, which may or may not be financial fraud (a crime).
Ryan recalls: "They had Joseph Cantrell working in Azure, according to his "diary" [1, 2]. Between drug binges and racist rants against his coworkers, he stopped and asked StackExchange questions because he didn't know how to do his job and nobody at Microsoft made sure he did before hiring him."
Yesterday we showed that analysts were unimpressed by Microsoft's lack of growth in "hey hi" (AI) and Clown Computing. The numbers just didn't look good. That helps explain the mass layoffs, including the very frequent large-scale layoffs in Azure.
When the year began Microsoft president Brad Smith lied about "investment" (headlines like "Microsoft expects to spend $80 bn on AI this fiscal year"). Some years ago, as Azure was struggling and losing money, they rebranded "clown" as "hey hi", conflating all sorts of things.
Consider the report from constructionbriefing.com. To quote Deputy Editor, International Construction (Mitchell Keller): "US-based technology giant Microsoft announced it paused construction of its US$3.3 billion artificial intelligence (AI) data centre in Mount Pleasant, Wisconsin, less than one year after it started, but why?"
Because of the lack of demand, duh!
Just because Microsoft claims something and cooks the books doesn't mean it's true.
Microsoft keeps repeating the lies that it "loves Linux" (while reports from 2 days ago show it attacking or trying to remove Linux). Just because it tries hosting Linux on its own servers does not mean it stands a chance. It's wishful thinking; infiltrating the Linux Foundation isn't cheap (Microsoft pays millions per year trying to take over entirely). █
Microsoft "loves Linux":
