A glitch in the system: Bing, Outlook.com, Cortana go down, come back

    A glitch in the system: Bing, Outlook.com, Cortana go down, come back


    Posted: 02 Jan 2015


    A few minutes ago, from about 11:25 am PST or so until about twenty minutes later, Bing.com and a number of Microsoft services went dark. Multiple reports on Twitter showed that the outage was widespread, if not long lived. Chip Locke, a "random coder for Bing" and @doubleyewdee on Twitter, confirmed the outage and the restoration, albeit with a bit of tongue-in-cheek:
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    02 Jan 2015



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    Microsoft services go on the fritz now and then that my biggest pet-peeve with using a Microsoft account as a login with 10TP
    Very unpredictable servers and services :)
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    Bad code update triggered Yahoo, Bing search crash


    Yahoo Inc and Microsoft Corp search engines temporarily went dark on Friday after Microsoft pushed out a bad code update and then struggled to roll it back, a person briefed on the outages told Reuters.

    The outages were not caused by an outside attack, the person said, declining to be named because the discussion concerned internal Yahoo matters.

    Microsoft's Bing search engine powers Yahoo search under a 10-year deal announced in 2009. Yahoo was not immediately available for comment. Microsoft confirmed the outage, but declined to comment on the cause.
    Read more: Bad code update triggered Yahoo, Bing search crash: source | Reuters
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