Azure Failure Was A Leap Year Glitch

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judgecorp

on Thursday March 01, 2012 @07:35AM

judgecorp writes "Microsoft's Windows Azure cloud service was down much of yesterday, and the cause was a leap year bug as the service failed to handle the 29th day of February. Faults propagated making this a severe outage for many customers, including the UK Government's recently launched G-cloud service."
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Stupidity got us into this mess -- why can't it get us out?

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