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MSN Messenger goes dark | |
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| Time: 01:58 EST/06:58 GMT | News Source: CNET | Posted By: Robert Stein | ||
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Microsoft's Instant Messenger service went down early Monday, affecting up to 75 million people worldwide who sign on to the service to chat with friends and co-workers. The Redmond, Wash.-based software maker lost for six hours much of the power to its .Net Messenger service, the backend component that runs all of its instant messaging clients--including Windows Messenger and MSN Messenger. Bob Visse, MSN's director of marketing, said that the source of the problem was as yet undetected, but the outage was "fairly widespread." "It's a worldwide outage, and most customers are affected," he said. "We're investigating it, but we do not know what the issue is." | ||
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| #1 By 7390 (63.211.44.114) at 1/7/2003 4:56:10 AM |
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This is totally unacceptable! given the high profile of IM and .net passport MS should have 99.999% up time. Do what ever it takes, tripple redundancy or anything that will keep the service up. I don't think that I am over simplifying the situation either.
I equate this to going to work and finding that the network down, it makes working a lot more difficult. Expecially when you are using .net passport as your authenication scheme. |
| #2 By 7390 (198.246.16.251) at 1/7/2003 10:20:55 AM |
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Phone? what the hell is that? does it run winXP?
oh yeah I have heard of that, that is the thing that you borrow the wire from for something called a "dialup" Seriously Kevin does make some good points but less not forget that IM has permuated into the corporate world. It is something that tech (along with other) workers use as part of their work day. I am a developer and IM is the defacto way that we communicate. It's less intrusive that a phone call or god forbid an actual visit. I recently linked my citibank credit card account to my .net passport and so I find this outage trouble some. |
| #3 By 1913 (146.27.122.17) at 1/7/2003 11:02:25 AM |
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Redhook ...
"I recently linked my citibank credit card account to my .net passport and so I find this outage trouble some." You can still access you account with your regular user name / password with Citibank if .Net is not working. Somehow I managed to connect to my IM on my Pocket PC Phone Edition yesterday while I was waiting for my flight in California. Hmmm |
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