In what appears to be the third major Microsoft service outage this week, the company confirmed that the portal for its Azure cloud platform was down as of Friday morning. On its Azure status page ...

"Our engineers are currently working on this issue," Microsoft told one user on X just before lunch, "and communications should have been sent to your service health dashboard in the Azure portal.

Microsoft has rebranded its virtual desktop ... A new onboarding experience in the Azure portal will start an automated deployment of a Virtual Desktop environment, he said. And finally ...