Azure updates and human error caused Visual Studio Online outage

The second of two lengthy outages that hit Visual Studio Online in November was caused by the same kind of issues as the first, Microsoft has just disclosed.Visual Studio Online, which allows developers to plan and track software development projects and share code, was unavailable for just over seven and a half hours on Monday of last week. It was preceded by another outage the prior week.In both cases, updates to Azure were to blame, and procedures that hadn’t been followed delayed the pr