A glitch knocked Microsoft's bCentral services offline Friday, leaving thousands of small-business Web sites inaccessible for much of the day. The outage, which began early Friday and was resolved late in the day, disrupted Web service for 15,000 Microsoft bCentral customers, Microsoft spokesman Rich Adolph said. "bCentral regrets the inconvenience this issue has caused to its customers," he said. The Web site of Microsoft bCentral itself was unaffected by the outage, which Microsoft blamed on a hardware problem. Among other services, bCentral provides Web hosting to small businesses.
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