By Barbara Darrow ,
Capping an already tough week for Microsoft, the company's MSN and Hotmail sites went down Friday.
Outages were reported starting Friday morning and as of 5:20 p.m. eastern, the sites were still out.
A company spokeswoman acknowledged that some customers started "experiencing issues" Friday morning eastern time. She said the team is looking into the cause and working on a fix although there is "no ETA yet."
It was unclear if the outages resulted from some sort of distributed denial of service (DDoS) or other attack.
The outages come on the heels of other bad news out of Redmond, Wash. On Wednesday, solution providers were advised that the long-awaited Yukon SQL Server release would slip from 2004 to 2005, as would the companion Visual Studio "Whidbey" offering.
Microsoft and its affiliated sites have been something of a bullseye for hackers and attackers of all kinds.
Article appears courtesy of CRN.
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