Says the software giant: "The issue was quickly triaged, and it was determined to be caused by a software bug. While final root-cause analysis is in progress, this issue appears to be due to a time calculation that was incorrect for the leap year."
After diagnosing the problem, the Azure engineers created a workaround, but they have noted that some customers in the South Central region of the U.S. may still experience slight issues.
Azure is a cloud computing platform used to build, host and scale web applications through Microsoft data centers.
Written by: Andre Yoskowitz @ 1 Mar 2012 21:40