I guess this sort of thing was bound to happen at some point. As the article says, all the major cloud platforms have had outages at some point. As someone who

I guess this sort of thing was bound to happen at some point. As the article says, all the major cloud platforms have had outages at some point. As someone who is actively considering building products using this platform I'm keen to see how well they manage this issue. How do they communicate during the outage, how open about what went wrong are they afterwards, do they learn from it, and so on. I particularly like the efforts Amazon have gone to in the past to show they are learning from these issues (see http://aws.amazon.com/message/65648/ http://aws.amazon.com/message/65648/) I'm hopeful that Microsoft will show the same level of openness.