For nearly four hours, Microsoft's MSN search returned a "service unavailable" message to visitors arriving at search.msn.com yesterday.
"He's dead, Jim!"
-- Dr. McCoy, Star Trek, far too many episodes to list here.
It appeared for a while that Microsoft was in the process of doing what some have expected it to do since its This service is currently unavailable
Our team is working to restore service as quickly as possible. Please try your request again later.
Or to paraphrase Edgar Allen Poe, 'quoth the raven, 404'.
But the blog has not been updated since its Search Macros post of March 28th.
The King County Journal posted at Threadwatch ("They can't figure out how to restart IIS correctly"; "shouldn't that screen be blue?"), there hasn't been much notice of the outage.
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