Hotmail Outage: Microsoft e-mail users having trouble gaining access

Filed under: Microsoft News, News | By: Peter Chubb
Posted on: February 26, 2008 | 26 Comments

Hotmail Outage: Microsoft e-mail users having trouble gaining access
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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26 Responses to “Hotmail Outage: Microsoft e-mail users having trouble gaining access”

  1. Brian says:

    I can’t access my email and need it back up ASAP. This is it for me. I can’t depend on Hotmail at all. I’m going gmail

  2. David Cantrell says:

    I can’t open my e-mails or delete them.It has been this way for almost a week.I thought it was in my own pc.It sounds like alot of people have the same problem.I hope you get it fixed soon.Thanks,Dave…

  3. Bob says:

    I upgraded to windows live and have not been able to get back into hotmail on this computer since - sorry I updated - I should know better by now!

  4. dkvan says:

    My hotmaill has been out for 3 days!!!!!!! It used to be just one account (i have 3 for website/ gaming puposes) then the whole site crashed after 3 hours on day 1.

    Ms plz fix this my mom is pissed and confused!

  5. tyler says:

    friends

  6. grizzly says:

    y’know, this is officially the best bad joke I’ve ever lived. my Hotmail account is inaccessible from Microsoft’s very own Internet Explorer (the default browser to open hotmail with a windows live messenger), but on Mozilla Firefox, it’s no problem.

    I lol’d hard and sloppily.

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