Why micrsoft.com doesn’t reply to ping

[sa@localhost ]$ ping www.microsoft.com Pinging lb1.www.ms.akadns.net [65.55.21.250] with 32 bytes of data: Request timed out. Request timed out. Request timed out. Request timed out. Ping statistics for 65.55.21.250: Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 0, Lost = 4 (100% loss),

Do you know why Micrsoft.com doesn’t replies to ping?

ping is a powerful small command line tool. Seeing the output of ping command a security analyst or hacker can grab important information about the target hosts. Target hosts can be web servers or a pc on local area network. Information includes Operating System & Version, availability of host etc.