Techguy
January 28, 2001, 12:09 am
Microsoft temporarily halts IE 5.5 downloads
By Jim Hu
Staff Writer, CNET News.com
January 25, 2001, 4:25 p.m. PT
Microsoft said Thursday it has temporarily halted downloads for its Internet
Explorer 5.5 Web browser while it updates the accompanying service pack.
The action comes as Redmond, Wash.-based Microsoft suffers its third day of widespread
outages, including problems at its flagship portal MSN.com, travel site Expedia, free e-mail
service Hotmail and WindowsMedia.com. The company issued a statement late Thursday
saying it was the target of a denial-of-service attack earlier in the day against the routers
that direct traffic to the company's Web sites.
A Microsoft representative
said the IE 5.5 service
pack update was unrelated
to the outages.
The company would not
disclose what is amiss with
the software, saying only
that the update will not add
new features to the service
pack, nor will it eliminate
any software bugs.
"It's not routine; they just
realized they had to update
a couple specific areas,"
the representative said.
As of Thursday afternoon, visitors to the IE 5.5 download site were greeted with the
following message: "Internet Explorer 5.5 and Internet Tools Service Pack 1 is temporarily
unavailable. Very shortly, this version of Internet Explorer will again be available from this
location."
The Internet Explorer home page does allow visitors to download IE 5.01, the browser's
previous version.
Source: Cnet (http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1003-200-4606555.html?tag=ch_mh)
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By Jim Hu
Staff Writer, CNET News.com
January 25, 2001, 4:25 p.m. PT
Microsoft said Thursday it has temporarily halted downloads for its Internet
Explorer 5.5 Web browser while it updates the accompanying service pack.
The action comes as Redmond, Wash.-based Microsoft suffers its third day of widespread
outages, including problems at its flagship portal MSN.com, travel site Expedia, free e-mail
service Hotmail and WindowsMedia.com. The company issued a statement late Thursday
saying it was the target of a denial-of-service attack earlier in the day against the routers
that direct traffic to the company's Web sites.
A Microsoft representative
said the IE 5.5 service
pack update was unrelated
to the outages.
The company would not
disclose what is amiss with
the software, saying only
that the update will not add
new features to the service
pack, nor will it eliminate
any software bugs.
"It's not routine; they just
realized they had to update
a couple specific areas,"
the representative said.
As of Thursday afternoon, visitors to the IE 5.5 download site were greeted with the
following message: "Internet Explorer 5.5 and Internet Tools Service Pack 1 is temporarily
unavailable. Very shortly, this version of Internet Explorer will again be available from this
location."
The Internet Explorer home page does allow visitors to download IE 5.01, the browser's
previous version.
Source: Cnet (http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1003-200-4606555.html?tag=ch_mh)
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