Microsoft Hotmail Down for Some

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I have had two billion people let me know that Hotmail is offline. It seems that Microsoft is aware of the issue and they are working on it. Not all Hotmail users are affected by the outage.

"We are aware that some customers may be experiencing difficulty accessing their Windows Live accounts," said Microsoft spokeswoman Samantha McManus in a statement. "We're actively investigating the cause and are working to take the appropriate steps to remedy the situation as rapidly as possible."
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Mine works too...

This was kind of funny news. Were people taking out their frustration on Steve?? :p
 
Mines been down for a day almost. Very frustrating, I'm waiting to get my RMA number from Corsair, and I can't check my e-mail to see if it came yet.
 
ahhhhh no wonder i couldn't get on :) right now i can get on... except its reaaaalllly slow. they better fix it! :D
 
Was down for me this morning, but not down for very long. Couldn't access the page, and the outlook connector to hotmail was also broken.
 
I was having some trouble today also. Not that it matters much. That is what I have 6 other accounts for.
 
Deviationer said:
funny that people still use hotmail or even yahoo
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It's hard to beat free, plus Hotmail has really grown up, they offer 5GB of storage and full integration with Outlook. I just checked both of my Hotmail accounts and had no trouble.
 
Mine was down all day. It just came back up. I'm transferring everything to gmail as we speak.
 
Deviationer said:
funny that people still use hotmail or even yahoo
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I've been using it for years so it is nice to keep it around for that reason as there are people that I haven't talked to much in years but they know my hotmail email address if they ever wanted to get ahold of me.

Its not different than people porting their phone numbers when they move so that people can still get ahold of them without having to learn a new phone number.
 
Warn3rv3 said:
Mine was down all day. It just came back up. I'm transferring everything to gmail as we speak.
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Why? Do you have some expectation that this will continue, and if so, what makes you think it can't happen with gmail?
 
Oh noes, somone cut our tubes!!111

Anyways, ironically at the same time florida is having massive total power outages :)
 
This issue has been on and off for days for me. Good thing hotmail is where all of my "family spam" goes to die.
 
Ockie said:
Oh noes, somone cut our tubes!!111

Anyways, ironically at the same time florida is having massive total power outages :)
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South Florida man, south Florida hehe. We fine up here in NW Florida. :D
 
Deviationer said:
funny that people still use hotmail or even yahoo
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why not? I have hotmail, 3 yahoo and Gmail accounts, and my gmail gets used the least. if at all. I just check it to keep it open, but don't use it. it's my least favorite.
 
Not only Hotmail was down for me and my company, but Windows Live Messenger was spitting out error codes on everyone's computer too. Tried reinstalling it on one stubborn computer and it prompted me that I had to install a Critical Update patch first. Everyone else's computer could be fixed via the connection repair feature.

I think someone over at Microsoft didn't feed their hamsters.
 
MS needs retool their online product in general. Just a small example, as some one that does not have cable I got to experience watching both of the prior presidental debates on streaming video on the net. Last week CNN streamed perfectly whereas MSNBC was almost unwatchable and became completely stalled half way threw the debate. I generally find the Hotmail servers to be slower than Gmail or Yahoo mail.

Its sad when one of the biggest names just doesn't deliver a good online experience.:mad:
 
And that is not just here at work. Last night at home on my desktop, and elsewhere when I was on my laptop.
 
The outage didn't affect me.

Hotmail is a great service but Microsoft needs to work on the downtime issues.
 
wanna know whats funny about this...

for me, Hotmail thru IE7 does not work...but on the same pc I can open up hotmail with firefox...

Hows that for a slice of fried gold
 
today I tried to sign in to review our company's software assurance license, but the sign-in page was down. I wonder if Microsoft was simply having troubles with their authentication service.
 
Well, it seems that a lot of Microsoft products were down yesterday. Maybe it wasn't Hotmail itself but something more central to Microsoft's online systems.
 
Phishing detection is also offline too on my IE7 browser. Something phishy is going on with Microsoft's server.

And yes the pun was intended :D
 
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