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Microsoft blames Leap Year bug for Azure downtime

article published on 1 March, 2012

Microsoft has blamed a Leap Year bug for the downtime Windows Azure users had on February 28th. Says the software giant: "The issue was quickly triaged, and it was determined to be caused by a software bug. While final root-cause analysis is in progress, this issue appears to be due to a time calculation that was incorrect for the leap year." After diagnosing the problem, the Azure ... [ read the full article ]

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SomeBozo
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_ 		2. March 2012 @ 01:12 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
Will Sql Server ever not be effected by the leap year bug?

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Bozobub
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_ 		2. March 2012 @ 09:46 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
Wow.. Even cloud computing mavens still are silly enough to be bitten by shoddy programming. Ah, how the mighty have fallen... lol
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SuckRaven
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_ 		2. March 2012 @ 13:30 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
So basically no one learned anything from Y2K. Hey, uhh.....this is Microsoft.....Yeah.....we still have no idea how a mother f*cking calendar works.

I find this extremely humorous.
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