Microsoft.com down?

I checked from 2 different networks and noticed that any website beginning with www.microsoft.com is down. I'm wondering if conficker has launched a DoS attack?
A friend over in England says it works fine for him. I'm in the U.S. Perhaps anyone else can confirm?

support.microsoft.com loads fine

 

That's not good.
MS site accessible here (US).

 

Not working in Canada atm either.

Edit: Working now.

 

Hi.

I'm in North America (USA) and I just checked access for www.microsoft.com and Microsoft help and support.
No problem whatsoever accessing both by means of favorites links or directly via search links.

 

Must be a dns issue depending on your location. I've heard some say it's up and others down. I know it sounds like a conficker infection but I can access anything else without a problem including symantec, mcafee and eset web sites.


I did a trace route on 2 different networks and communication appears to drop while going through Chicago on both networks.

 

Perhaps changing your DNS to the free OpenDNS http://www.opendns.com might avoid any DNS issues with your ISP -- it's certainly been great for us compared to comcast in the US.

 

All good here, loading MS US site without any issues.
Mrk

 

Now working again today.