A day after trumpeting various enhancements to Bing, including the beta version of an improved mapping service, Microsoft had to apologize for a widespread outage that kept the search engine offline for about 30 minutes on Thursday.
During the outage, users either couldn't get the site to load or they received truncated results pages for their search queries, Microsoft said.
"The cause of the outage was a configuration change during some internal testing that had unfortunate and unintended consequences," wrote Satya Nadella, senior vice president of Microsoft's Online Services Division, in an official blog.
"We are running a post mortem to find out how our software and processes need to be improved to prevent anything like this from happening again," he added.
More: http://computerworld.com/s/article/9141803/
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During the outage, users either couldn't get the site to load or they received truncated results pages for their search queries, Microsoft said.
"The cause of the outage was a configuration change during some internal testing that had unfortunate and unintended consequences," wrote Satya Nadella, senior vice president of Microsoft's Online Services Division, in an official blog.
"We are running a post mortem to find out how our software and processes need to be improved to prevent anything like this from happening again," he added.
More: http://computerworld.com/s/article/9141803/
