Hotmail and Other Windows Live Services Suffer Outage

by Tim Stevens, posted Feb 27th 2008 at 9:27AM

You can't beat free online e-mail. You want a different e-mail address for every day of the week? You got it. Need separate accounts for those sites you just know are going to spam you like there's no tomorrow? No problem.

No problem, that is, until those sites go down, which is exactly what happened to Microsoft yesterday. Most users of the company's Windows Live suite of tools, which includes the free online e-mail client Hotmail, were unable to access the site for much of the day, leaving them with no way to look at all of their spam.

The outage was total, leaving the service's 260 million subscribers with nothing but a "Service Unavailable" message when they attempted to view the site.

Today, we're happy to report, things seem to be back up and working correctly -- if a bit slowly. Spam ahoy.

From CNET News.com

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Filed under: Computers, Breaking News

Tags: breaking+news, Hotmail, Microsoft, Outages, top, Windows Live, WindowsLive

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JoeF @ Mar 25th 2008 2:10PM

I did't even know that Hotmail was down since I download my Hotmail messages to Outlook. Must not have effected the message center, just the signon.

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