Just hours before Microsoft's earnings call, a massive Azure outage took down services globally. Was it a sophisticated cyber-attack, or something far simpler? In this episode of the Inspiring Tech Leaders podcast, I look at what caused the Azure Front Door problem. Listen in to learn more about: 💡 The root cause of the Azure Outage. 💡 How Microsoft maintained its financial momentum and managed the narrative despite the massive disruption. 💡 The data that shows most major outages ...
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Just hours before Microsoft's earnings call, a massive Azure outage took down services globally. Was it a sophisticated cyber-attack, or something far simpler? In this episode of the Inspiring Tech Leaders podcast, I look at what caused the Azure Front Door problem. Listen in to learn more about: 💡 The root cause of the Azure Outage. 💡 How Microsoft maintained its financial momentum and managed the narrative despite the massive disruption. 💡 The data that shows most major outages ...
GPT-5 was released on the 7th August 2025, and has been making headlines in the tech world. In this episode of the Inspiring Tech Leaders podcast, I explore the following: 💡 GPT-5 now "thinks before it speaks" with internal chain-of-thought processing 💡 Massive reliability boost with a 26% reduction in hallucinations vs GPT-4o 💡 Strongest coding model yet, creating complete apps from simple descriptions 💡 Available to free users for the first time, breaking down barriers to advanced AI ...
Inspiring Tech Leaders
Just hours before Microsoft's earnings call, a massive Azure outage took down services globally. Was it a sophisticated cyber-attack, or something far simpler? In this episode of the Inspiring Tech Leaders podcast, I look at what caused the Azure Front Door problem. Listen in to learn more about: 💡 The root cause of the Azure Outage. 💡 How Microsoft maintained its financial momentum and managed the narrative despite the massive disruption. 💡 The data that shows most major outages ...
