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Each one is sketched by hand and some are so mind-blowing that you may do a double-take before realizing that they are, in fact, illustrations and not photographs. 40 Of The Most Powerful Photographs Ever Taken. Yes, Microsoft Azure Was Downed By Leap-Year Bug. By Dan Goodin, Ars Technica Microsoft has confirmed that Wednesday’s Windows Azure outage that left some customers in the dark for more than 12 hours was the result of a software bug triggered by the Feb. 29 leap-year date that prevented systems from calculating the correct time.
In a post, Azure lead engineer Bill Laing said his team was able to put a fix in place that restored service to most customers around 3 a.m. PST on Wednesday, a little more than nine hours after it became aware of the issue. In a follow-up bulletin, he promised to provide a fuller post-mortem on the root cause soon. Point-of-sale terminals in New Zealand supermarkets were also reportedly bitten by leap-year bugs.