This seems to be about some odd certificate issue, not the network, which caused Microsoft to take access to its service management system down.

From the article itself:

> It later added that less than 3.8 per cent of hosted services had been affected.

If this was about Google or Apple, this submit would already have been flagged, taken off the front page, and several accounts would have been hell-banned.

</endjoke, but it's really true>

It will be interesting to see if Microsoft expands on this issue and if we can learn something about it... Perhaps other datacenters are also vulnerable to cert issues in their management systems.