Microsoft Azure Failure: SSL Certificates Were Updated... Sort Of

judgecorp writes "Microsoft has published an explanation of the failure of Windows Azure earlier this month. Users of the Azure storage saw that an SSL certificate had expired. Microsoft's explanation says that the certificate had in fact been renewed, but an update with the new certificate details was not prioritized, and hadn't actually been implemented till after the old certificate expired. There are more interesting details, but Microsoft says better alerts and more automation will stop this particular fault happening again."

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Re:When will they accept Windows 8 as a failure?

[stephanruby]

Look, I know nobody cares, but Microsoft Azure has nothing to do with Windows 8.

Except for the fact that Windows 8 now comes with a secure bootloader.

In other words, Microsoft likes to centralize security. It doesn't matter to them if that means creating a single point of failure. They're like a large government wanting to control everything, even if that means it compromises everything else.