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Microsoft halts IE 5.5 downloads

Microsoft Corp. said Thursday it has temporarily halted downloads for its Internet Explorer 5.

Written by ZDNET Editors, Contributor Jan. 25, 2001 at 4:00 p.m. PT

Microsoft Corp. 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. -- Jim Hu, Special to ZDNet News

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