i think this article takes what happened to WGA in the wrong direction. I think the lessons to be learned from the WGA outage is that critical systems should av

i think this article takes what happened to WGA in the wrong direction. I think the lessons to be learned from the WGA outage is that critical systems should avoid relying on external services or at least provide a fail safe mechanism. Also, as far as I can tell from the article the servers that went down were not hosting true web applications that users log into, just web services that some desktop software relied upon. There are plenty of other network services that desktop computer need to function correctly (for example DNS). Perhaps the WGA failure should server as a lesson in risk management and designing applications with decent failure modes.