Microsoft has recognized a very strong increase in demand for
own cloud services in this period of tied forced domestic confinement
to the Coronavirus pandemic. "We have recognized a 775% increase in ours
cloud services in regions that imposed social distancing or
require
home confinement, "reads a
Azure blog post.
This question includes the use of Windows Virtual Desktop,
grown more than three times, and record numbers scored by Microsoft
Teams, Xbox Game Pass, Xbox Live and Mixer. Consequently Microsoft had to
take steps to ensure that the services remain of good quality for an audience
as wide as possible. For example, regarding Xbox services, Microsoft
has temporarily disabled the ability to upload profile images (gamerpic),
custom club photos and club wallpapers. "
Like
already mentioned by Akamai in recent days, Microsoft
he is also working to keep game updates from coming
served to users during peak hours, so
similar to what Sony is doing. Last week the Redmond house has
stated that give first aid personnel access to the cloud
and emergency services, and at the same time will try to keep Microsoft Teams stable. The use of Teams grew by 12 million to just one
week, going from 32 to 44 million daily active users, from
register some service interruptions.
Microsoft temporarily modified some aspects of Teams to improve overall capacity and reliability. "We have
made some temporary changes to some nonessential features like
the frequency with which we check the presence of the user, the interval in which
we show when the person you are communicating with is writing and the resolution
video".