Hotmail apparently is experiencing a major outage. The message I got at 9:44am ET was:
This is the first Microsoft Hotmail outage that I have seen in quite some time. Guess I'll be using my GMail account this morning.
Further, if you go to www.live.com, Microsoft's highly touted site, you also get this error message. I just went to wwww.microsoft.com and some of the images loaded very slowly. I then headed over to www.msn.com and some of the links are very very slow. DDOS attack on Microsoft? I'll report when I find out more.
Here's the text copy/pasted from my browser:
And here's a screenshot. Click for larger version.
Update: 9:56am
It appears that www.live.com is back up, however, Hotmail still gives the same error message.
Update: 2/26/08 - 10:30am - another outage
Another Hotmail outage. I was in the middle of checking for an important registration email too.
Server too busy.
We are experiencing higher than normal volume and are therefore unable to service your request at this time. Try one of the following:
In your browser, click Refresh
In your browser, click Back, and try again
Wait a few minutes and try again
We apologize for this inconvenience.
This is the first Microsoft Hotmail outage that I have seen in quite some time. Guess I'll be using my GMail account this morning.
Further, if you go to www.live.com, Microsoft's highly touted site, you also get this error message. I just went to wwww.microsoft.com and some of the images loaded very slowly. I then headed over to www.msn.com and some of the links are very very slow. DDOS attack on Microsoft? I'll report when I find out more.
Here's the text copy/pasted from my browser:
Server Too Busy
We are experiencing higher than normal volume and are therefore unable to service your request at this time. Try one of the following:
We apologize for this inconvenience.
- In your browser, click Refresh
- In your browser, click Back, and try again
- Wait a few minutes and try again
We apologize for this inconvenience.And here's a screenshot. Click for larger version.
Update: 9:56am
It appears that www.live.com is back up, however, Hotmail still gives the same error message.
Update: 2/26/08 - 10:30am - another outage
Another Hotmail outage. I was in the middle of checking for an important registration email too.
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Since yesterday, getting repeated error due to "configuration" problem. Cannot access msn mail or other msn sites. Cannot get through to live tech support.
It happened again today. . . . how can I check my email!? Dash it! And I don't have any other email account . . . Yahoo! welcomes all kinds of bulk after I use my account for awhile and I find Gmail so boring and snooty. Always asking me why I'd bother deleting my messages when there's so much space. Isn't that my business?! But yeah, anyways, . . . . I hope Hotmail gets fixed soon.
quiero descargar el nuevo messengger live
Anyone know why Hotmail has gone down again, why their servers are that bad to have gone down so much the past month? Very interesting indeed...
So frustrating.
Looks like hotmail.co.uk is back up and running! Hotmail.com is still down though in the UK