Microsoft's Photosynth Crashes on Day 1
Source: Tom's Guide | Keywords: Photosynth, microsoft | Themes: The Internet, Software, Business
Microsoft Wednesday launched PhotoSynth, an application that would allow users to generate 3D environments from a stitched together series of photographs. However, unprecedented demand for the program has seen the Photosynth website collapse under heavy traffic.
Just hours after launch, people began to have trouble accessing the website. A post in the Microsoft Live Lab blog was quick to lay everything out straight and explain to the masses what was going on with PhotoSynth.
Microsoft explained that while the PhotoSynth team had done massive amounts of performance testing, built capacity model after capacity model to try and cope with demands once the application launched, but traffic had proved too much and they were currently adding more horsepower to be back up soon. The blog also said that the overwhelming amounts of traffic meant the company had to switch PhotoSynth to a special static/read-only mode for the time being.
The initial blog was followed with regular updates detailing the progress being made in getting the site back up and running. A report appeared at 3:40 p.m. that PhotoSynth was back online but that new synths had yet to be switched back on.
Aside from some fairly normal first day jitters, Microsoft announced that overall, day one had gone pretty well. Despite the down time, 7727 synths have been created comprised of over 286,689 images.
Visit Photosynth to try out the application for yourself.
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LOL: With Firefox 3 on Ubuntu I get the following error:
"Unfortunately, we're not cool enough to run on your OS yet. We really wish we had a version of Photosynth that worked cross platform, but for now it only runs on Windows."
I'm sure they really wished it did work on Linux.
...way to be misleading with the title.
w2g jhansonxi!
Microsoft humility at its finest (only?).
Also, note Microsoft's current inability to implement the "cloud computing" (read: mainframe) application form factor.
It crashed. So what? It's not the end of the world yet. I'd rather have it crash at the beginning than later on.
Ok? I dont see the big deal. They setup something to handle tons of traffic only it was way more populer then they expected and crashed. It happens so what?
I realise people wish to mindlessly bash microsoft because they do things people dont like but jesus christ. Name a company that doesnt! Dont like MS? get over it do what the first poster did and dont use it and let it go.
why the pms enforcer? i see no bashing here... i don't honestly
Nice title. Way to mislead the public with crap journalism ethics. And why the hell would MS be interested in mainframe computing? Makes no sense as the market for that probably accounts for 0.1% of the computing industry. This is just another case of poor journalism feeding misconceptions. WTF is going on with THG. I have read 5 articles today with poor grammar and sentence structure. FIRE THE EDITOR imo.