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The Future of 24/7 Computing is…

...Shut for maintenance

By Drew Cullen • Get more from this author

Posted in Bootnotes, 15th August 2002 09:34 GMT

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Yesterday, visitors to Microsoft's ASP.Net site were greeted with the following message:

ASP.net is currently down

.

This is the future of 24x7 computing? More likely, it's 24/7 computing - 24 divided by 7 is about 3-and-a-half.

OK, so it's a low blow. We thank reader Russell Ritchie for bringing it to our attention. ®

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