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Hotmail Outage Resolved?


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Microsoft said late Tuesday that it had resolved the issue that kept many users from accessing many of its online services for most of the day.

Hotmail Outage Resolved
Windows Live Service Experiences Blackout

The outage affected services including Windows Live Mail Hotmail, Xbox Live, Skydrive and Live Messenger. Microsoft has not said what caused the outage.

By 7 p.m. EST Tuesday, Microsoft said the problem had been fixed and all services were operating. "Earlier today, an issue began that has caused some consumers worldwide to experience difficulty logging in to their Windows Live ID accounts," said Samantha McManus, product manger for Windows Live.

"This issue has since been resolved and normal operations have been restored to all customers." Microsoft said the outage issue only impacted the log-in process for users and did not affect users who were already logged in.

"Microsoft worked aggressively to resolve this unique problem as quickly as possible. We apologize for any inconvenience this issue has caused consumers," McManus said.

This was not the first time Microsoft services have been down. Close to a year ago Live Messenger, Live Mail and other services were not available to users for part of a day. In April 2007, Live Mail and Messenger were not operating for a number of hours. In each case Microsoft did not say what caused the outages.
 

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Hotmail off and on

Have not been able to access my hotmail account.  Windows Live and Hotmail are not on my Qwest home, and my Google bar was also mission.  For some reason, my husband can log onto his hotmail account but I cannot. 

I was able to click on the blue "Hotmail" letters in the message from Microsoft, and it went directly to my inbox(?). 

Does it help to reinstall Windows or MSN or what?

 

cool design web web

Hotmail Problems

I can open hotmail and open a msg but than I can't go anywhere else.Get msg " we're working on your request". Shows javascript in bottom task bar.

Still out in Germany

It's been over 10 days and hotmail only came back up once in the time period.  www.msn.com and www.hotmail.com both just give a blank white screen.  Thanks Bill.

:::for search engines:::
hotmail not working
hotmail still down
cant login to hotmail or msn
unable to login hotmail
hotmail outage
June 10th 2008
this sucks

Hotmail not working in Italy

To my knowledge hotmail has been unreachable in Italy since last Friday.

I am considering moving to google mail altogether.

hotmail

May 7 2008

Hotmail not working for the second day, just got into messenger. No to hotmail though. Seems to hang for awhile.

Who'd want to have a Hotmail account anyway?

Given that Hotmail recently implemented a practice of bouncing any mail they catch with more than ten recipients in the 'to' field, then you'd have to be insane to still be usiing it.

After all that means you can't use Hotmail for message groups. to join a forum (messages to alert you to new responses to a post or forum wide events will get bounced), to recieve group emails (no point joining a mailing list if you have Hotmail) or just most forwards from your friends. No social networking sites and pretty much 50% of the uses of an email will not get through to you.

Microsoft Needs Competition

First VISTA, now this.  The U.S. auto makers got so cocksure of themselves (and no, cocksure isn;t a dirty word, grow up, buy a dictionary) that they started turning out inferior products. Then the Japanese came along and sold cheaper and better cars, driving some of them out of business, and forcing the rest to turn out better prducts. 

The problem with MicroSquish is they don't have a competitor to challenge them (and sorry, Linux isn't a challenger).  

Fixed !!???

Will IE7 ever be fixed?? Will it ever be all it's been propped up to be?? Right now my opinion is that it sucks like the backdraft of a vaccuum.

yet it is not working

i am unable to login in to my account

MSN vs Yahoo

Is it possible that they are at war , after all it was a hostile take over and with each other all becasue Yahoo  has said no lots of times? And is it possible this has been going on for awhile? All I know is we are caught in the middle and things that don't work  all the time as they use to. Is it also Possible that we have forgen hackers hired by bad guys at top dollar to disruped the net and e-mail servers so we are paying attention to that instead of what we really need to pay attention to? I just wonder what is really going on.

For REAL!

hostility always brings grief and disruption. Msn flexing it's muscles has turned my stomach! They suck like a 2 bit whore. Greedy bastards in bed with every dirty greedy SOB that can make a buck from this.

Could it be a cache

Could it be a cache problem?? Mine was up Late afternoon on Tuesday. I get a new page with each visit so maybe that helped. GMAIL looks better every day!

Gmail IS better by far!

Gmail IS better by far!

It's Thursday afternoon at

It's Thursday afternoon at almost 1:00 EST, and I still cannot access my hotmail account. It's been three solid days now!  Does anyone know if Microsoft is acknowledging that there are still problems?

MSN Tech Support Re: Hotmail server down

It is 7:30 a.m.,   Thursday in Michigan.  I just got off the phone with a very snotty tech support person who was very adament that the problem with Hotmail is MY web browser, that there are no problems with Hotmail, not have there been any recently.   Good thing that I could not go thru the phone at her.   

utage

my hotmail account is still down nor can youu access email account through the hotmail linkk on msn homer pagge.

 

search engine to hotmaill won't oopen either as of 10:34pacif wedternn

I can't get to my hotmail. 

I can't get to my hotmail.  Problem for hours.  Yuggg!

I haven't had any mail for 3

I haven't had any mail for 3 days now.

This is invasion, money mongering and intrusive on Microsoft's part.

How do you justify changing a customer's service without notifying them?

I think there might me a lawsuit afoot..regarding civil liberties here and invasion of privacy.

Sincerely

Theda Spracklin

 

HOTMAIL STILL NOT WORKING

DAY 4 -- HOW LONG WILL THIS CONTINUE??!?!?

Still out

Where did they get the idea that the problem was fixed?

hey gates you douche, your

hey gates you douche, your product sucks balls

Still not working.

Still not working.

9:00PM Wed Feb 27 Hotmail

9:00PM Wed Feb 27 Hotmail Not Working!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

HOTMAIL NOT WORKING!!!

IT'S 9:30PM IN PEORIA IL AND HOTMAIL IS NOT WORKING AT MY HOUSE.  WORKED AT MY PLACE OF BUSINESS EARLIER.  I'M HAVING PROBLEMS WITH MYSPACE AND EBAY ALSO.  IS ANYONE ELSE HAVING PROBLEMS WITH THESE SITES?

still not working

still not working

Hotmail still not working

When will they get it fixed. It is 9:30 pm Feb 27  and it still is not up.

Hotmail

What gives?  Can't get hotmail to open either-yet (7PM Wed).

 

Milt Marasch

Hotmail Fixed?

What fix?  It's after 6 pm here in California and I still can't get service!  I am completely shut down without my e-mail.

Hotmail

As of 8:00 pm CST in Illinois, still not working.  My mom can't access her email either and she's got Comcast.  This is crazy.

bigstring

What is up with bigstring. I havn't been able to log on to that site all week. I talked to their help desk today and they seem to think it may be a problem with microfoft.  have you heard anything?

No Service

I am still without the ability to log in to Hotamil. This service is my main EMAil carrier for my home based business. Please get us back on line ASAP.

Don Miller

618-599-9358

hotmail outage

What is going on with the hotmail? it hasn't worked all week???

hotmail hasn't worked here in IL for a month!

What is going on?  I can get hotmail from work but not from my home computer, which is where I would rather be reading it!

hotmail website

I can not get into hotmail it says website has an errow 

I live near Albany, NY and

I live near Albany, NY and my hotmail is still not working!

Hotmail

Still dead here not able to log in, I really would like this resolved

I have been having problems

I have been having problems logging into hotmail for the past month. It keeps saying internet cannot display the web page.  I have to do it over and over and sometimes it doesnt work. Is this the same problem or is mine something else?

It is still not working @

It is still not working @ 5:33 p.m. central. Am so mad...................................

I have been having problems

I have been having problems logging into hotmail for the past month. It keeps saying internet cannot display the web page.  I have to do it over and over and sometimes it doesnt work. Is this the same problem or is mine something else?

Service not working for my account.

I am a relativley new user and am unable to access my account.  Access is pertinant considering I have used the address as a destination for recent job search responses.

Hotmail not working here

I'am glad to read that Microsoft has fixed the problem in California - NOW WHAT ABOUT THE REST OF THE COUNTRY!!!!!     Like always, it sounds great on the news (that they have fixed it) regardless of the facts.

6:30 pm in Indiana and no HotMail

6:30 pm in Indiana and still no HotMail

Restored?  Hardely, would

Restored?  Hardely, would nice to have some honesty from this mega-monopoly.

NOT WORKING YET..

NOT WORKING YET..

Hotmail outage

...is still not fixed.  Unable to login @1800 hrs EST

."..normal operations have

."..normal operations have been restored to all customers."

AHHHH HATE TO TELL YA MICROSOFT - BUT THAT'S NOT TRUE...  SOOOO FIX IT PLEASE

 

HOTMAIL

STILL NOT WORKING HERE AS OF 4:45 PM CST

still not working here as of

still not working here as of almost 6pEST

Still not working and I have

Still not working and I have spent hours researching how to contact hotmail technical support and can't find it ANYWHERE. I have a feeling that I will be going to gmail or something a little more reliable! Not being able to log in for days is not okay!

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