Microsoft Live Cashback Gets Glitchy in Traffic

Microsoft (MSFT) lined up some great deals for Live Cashback users Friday. But users are reporting that the site was down much of the morning, and more than half of my attempts to connect are timing out. Given the high volume of ecommerce sales that take place today, that’s not good. The site joins others having tech problems on this Black Friday.

It’s also not so great for Microsoft’s expanding cloud computing efforts. If Microsoft can’t keep their own sites live on heavy traffic days, they can’t expect other companies to have faith in them as a platform either.

Live Cashback first launched in May 2008 to give users a refund on purchases.

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[jack dee:]

yeah, sure , and the sites MSFT was linking to were working fine?

I guess you were trying to get one of those cheap HP machines, and in your anger are looking to place blame on MS.

2008 Dec 01 02:43 AM