Managed World

I realize ranting is pretty juvenile. However, I have proved time and time again that I'm not above juvenile behavior (quite the opposite, I imagine). With that in mind, I have decided to actually post my rants here even though it may mean I get severely flamed and I might look like a tremendous donkey's ass. Oh well, that's the price that comes along with the territory I suppose. "If you can't stand the heat, get out of the kitchen," as my mum used to always say (okay, she only said it once; and in her defense, the house was ACTUALLY on fire at the time).

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You know, if I was Microsoft, and I was holding a big conference on Microsoft technology, I, for one, would not want to have one of my public facing portals to be down quite a bit. Of course, by the time you read this, it will probably already be resolved.

I've tried getting on to the site numerous times over the last week in order to prepare and make my schedule for Tech Ed. However, 90% of the time that I try to load the site, I get a big white "Cannot Find Server" page. Not only that, when I can get in, it seems that one out of every five schedule requests time out.

I may be the only one here, but I consider this unacceptable. Especially when it is hosted by the world's largest software company, and built on their own software. Is there a better way to show how absolutely infallible your software is than putting out into the world and having it fall on its face over and over (and it's not like it's suffering from the Slashdot Effect or anything).

For some reason, it brings back memories of dreams of going to school naked and having everyone laugh at me (quite the opposite of the effect that Rory had on fellow schoolmates). Or, if you will, it reminds me of several stupid Adam Sandler skits ("They're all gonna laugh at you, they're all gonna laugh at you!!!").

Please, do me one favor. You're Microsoft. You have perhaps the largest software budget in the world, and technology that I know is fully capable of large amounts of up-time. The last you could do is provide all of us with a site that a) works and b) works most of the time.

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