Oxford University Blacklisted from Microsoft Services for Reasons Unknown
Oxford University Blacklisted from Microsoft Services for Reasons Unknown
Posted 10/03/2011 at 7:17am
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Faculty and students attending Oxford University in the U.K. are currently without access to several Microsoft services, including Hotmail, MSN, Live, and others. Oxford ICT officer Peter Bushnell reached out to DailyTech about the apparent blacklist that "has been going on for a week now" after unsuccessfully trying to get a straight answer from Microsoft.
Bushnell says the university has been in contact with Microsoft to resolve the issue, but so far the communication raises more questions than it answers.
"We have only been given a small snippet from the Microsoft postmaster, 'We are unable to take action... we are not at liberty to discuss the nature of the block.' That's a nice brickwall Microsoft has," Bushnell told DailyTech.
According to DailyTech, Oxford University's claims check out, and the school's ICT homepage is posting a notice about the outage. A Microsoft spokespeson DailyTech has worked with in the past is reaching out to colleagues in hopes of finding out exactly what is going on.
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penskeford
October 03, 2011 at 7:58am
Microsoft, in direct conjunction with The U.S. State Department has been trying to get those limey's to change "chips", in fish and chips, to, french or freedom fries for quite some time. The Brit's absolutely refuse to speak proper American English and therefore shall be banished to the realms of DOS 3.0 or earlier until such time as they see the err of their ways.
someuid
October 03, 2011 at 10:31am
I laughed pretty hard when I heard someone from France refer to a sandwich as a "wretched English invention."
praack
October 03, 2011 at 7:38am
MS probably heard they were using Linux without paying MS patent Royalties!
in reality it will probably be: a) mistake on a MS automatic license server stating oxford is pirating software 2) oxford is pirating software 3) oxford servers were identified as being part of a botnet
those are my choices anyway- anyone else???
someuid
October 03, 2011 at 7:47am
Two faculty members traded in their Windows workstations for iPads and required their class to write fart jokes about Balmer.
Conal_keaney
October 03, 2011 at 7:24am
Weird. Fishy is written all over this issue. Why bothering to blacklist Oxford is rather strange.
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