Beginning around 4 p.m. EST, developers and other Azure customers began being blocked from accessing files. “Storage is currently experiencing a worldwide outage impacting HTTPS operations (SSL ...

Microsoft’s Azure cloud platform faced a worldwide outage in its storage services from Friday afternoon because of an expired SSL (secure sockets layer) certificate. The company reported services were ...

It looks like Microsoft has had its fair share of problems this week. Microsoft Azure, a cloud-based computer platform, suffered from outages yesterday beginning at 4:00 P.M. Eastern Standard Time.

Microsoft's Windows Azure storage service went down worldwide just before 4 p.m. ET/9 p.m. UTC, apparently due to an expired HTTPS certificate. Here's what the Windows Azure status dashboard is ...