Microsoft's Azure platform and other company services are experiencing an outage that started around 12:00 p.m. Eastern time on Thursday. The company reported that the outage was triggered by "an inadvertent configuration change" that impacted the Azure Front Door delivery network.

Microsoft suffered outages on its Azure cloud computing platform and 365 services Wednesday, hours before the Redmond tech giant was set to release quarterly earnings.

As Azure crumbled, Microsoft laid out its latest 40% growth rate numbers to show how well the platform is doing

Microsoft's Azure and its suite of productivity software were down for thousands of users on Wednesday, according to outage tracking website Downdetector.com.

Azure DevOps Server is the replacement for Team Foundation Server, rebranding the on-premises tool and adding on-premises versions of many of the features in the cloud-hosted Azure DevOps Services. If you’re running TFS 2015 or later, you can upgrade, which may be a good option as TFS 2015 is no longer supported and will not get security updates.

The most important number in Microsoft's earnings call could be its Azure forecast, particularly as investors assess the sustainability of cloud growth and the company's ability to meet demand in the face of supply constraints.

Microsoft (($MSFT)) has held its Q1 earnings call. Read on for the main highlights of the call. Microsoft’s recent earnings call painted a picture