No one Russian to identify the perpetrators

The weekend saw two massive internet outages – one was a global hack of VM servers, and the other was a problem with an Italian telco which shut down most of the country.

Problems creating virtual machines 

Microsoft says Windows Server updates released during December's Patch Tuesday trigger errors when creating new virtual machines on some Hyper-V hosts.

Uses its Arm-based Ampere Altra

Microsoft announced the general availability of virtual machines (VMs) on Azure featuring the Ampere Altra, a processor based on the Arm architecture.