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Similarly, on a 13" 1080p chromebook, I get this: http://i.imgur.com/pGhjAwQ.png

Turning uBlock off didn't seem to help at all.

Edit: after letting it load for 3+ minutes, the page does load successfully, giving this: http://i.imgur.com/qnNlvYj.png So maybe it does work! Eventually.

Pretty sure it's just one of their CDN's failing.

How can we trust Microsoft Azure then?! Not even able to serve their own product

https://www.microsoft.com/surface/assets/... is resolving to 2600:1409:a:18c::2768, which is owned by Akamai.

But your point still stands: even Microsoft doesn't trust Azure's CDN offering.

I'm pretty sure Microsoft has always relied on Akamai as their CDN. They gave up on rolling out their own CDN a while ago, which makes sense.

Isn't the Azure CDN offering through Akamai?

Isn't everyone's CDN offering through Akamai these days?

Should've used IE6

didn't find out why but resizing the browser (from fullscreen to something smaller) fixed this issue. Of course you can resize it back to fullscreen afterwards.

They are getting pounded with traffic, give it a minute.