Microsoft.com suffers outage
C|Net | at | by Mike
Microsoft's corporate Web site became unavailable Friday afternoon amid heightened fears that a major Internet attack could be on the horizon. Microsoft's Web site became largely inaccessible at about 12:50 p.m. PT, according to reader reports received by CNET News.com. A Microsoft representative confirmed the site was experiencing problems and said the company is investigating.
Although the cause was unknown, the Microsoft.com outage occurred as system administrators and security experts were bracing for a potentially large Internet attack. The U.S. federal government warned earlier this week that an attack could be brewing that exploits a widespread flaw in Microsoft's Windows operating system.