Friday, January 26, 2001
Microsoft DoS'ed -- 1:31 pm CST, Update by A.T. Hun
Microsoft has confirmed that their recent downtime with their various websites is due to a denial of service (DoS) attack. The company assures its customers that it will be taking steps to keep this kind of thing from happening in the future. Unfortunately for them, I think that they are just going to become a bigger and bigger target as time goes on.J.t.Qbe comments: That raises some interesting concerns about Micro$oft's .NET project, doesn't it? M$' plan has been to change the dominant computing model from software running on individual machines to software delivered over the internet via M$ servers. Outages like this week's show that M$ is far, far from ready to provide these services. This Linux Today article even goes so far as to wonder whether .NET is finished. Hmmm, I didn't expect .NET's end to come this quickly. . .
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