Hotmail Outage: Microsoft e-mail users having trouble gaining access
February 26, 2008 | Filed under Microsoft News, News

The Hotmail email service from Microsoft seems to be suffering from an outage; many users have complained that they can’t get into their e-mail accounts. According to Global and Mail Microsoft Corp. have said that they are experiencing technical difficulties.
A spokesperson from Microsoft Corp. stated “We’re having some sporadic issues with the Windows Live login,” they then went on to say “We’ll be working as fast as possible to get up and running.”
It is not known how many users are affected by this Hotmail Outage and how many countries it is affecting, however rest assured that Microsoft are working on a solution to this problem.
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Ahh!! One more MS disasters!!
down in toronto canada,
hows it feel M$!!!!??????1111
l0lz
I live in Montreal, Canada. My hotmail has been out for several hours.
…somewhere on mars
“Will somebody stop playing around and turn my email back on!!!”
“Earthlings always ruining it for us martians”.
yes it’s been effecting me for the past 5 hours. It is disgraceful, what if people have important information they need to access from their email account? Another concern is whether or not email sent while the service is down will bounce or if it will be available when the service is up and running again.
My non-updated-to-Live friend is fine and I’m getting punished for having upgraded
Hotmail connection in Costa Rica has been difficult all this morning and early afternoon.
si jeni o burra shqiptare……..shqiptare
Your email service is sub par. Get it together.
Its strange to see users of a *free* service whining on the outage. If you have important stuff, get a PoP account.
please get it up and running fast, as i have important stuff i need to get out of my email.\
if this ever happens again i reckon there should be a alternative so people can still access their emails,
not that im complaining because it is free!!!! And thats GREAT, because nothink these days are free anymore….
i still cant get into my msn messenger or check my hotmail !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! i need this!!!!!!!!!!
Windows live hotmail still down in Texas or at least mine is.
Today for the first time hotmail is down for me here in Melbourne Australia. I have tried again and again but the page would not even build up. I cannot acsess my mail… Hope for quick recovery.
brisbane australia….cant get into my hotmail account….hellllpppppppp…..
well i wondered what was going on!!!! THOUGHT I WAS HAVING A BLONDE MOMENT!!!!!! thankgod its only you guys…..ah could you please hurry up though…thanks….
Jesus guys give them a break , think about it , windows live messenger caters for hundreds of thousands of people , possibly millions , it cant be expected to run smoothly all the time ffs
It’s back up and running now anyway , so just chillax,
Not only that- ,but script disappears (even paragraphs)when writing mail in Vista. It is happening to lot’s of people- and is nothing new. The ‘help’ links sent by Microsoft folks do nothing to help. It seems like thousands of ‘primo’25 y.o.software designers paid up the yin-yang- could have come up w/something that works. I went to G-mail. : (