Hotmail Outage

Hotmail apparently is experiencing a major outage. The message I got at 9:44am ET was:
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Server too busy.
\nWe are experiencing higher than normal volume and are therefore unable to service your request at this time. Try one of the following:
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\nIn your browser, click Refresh
\nIn your browser, click Back, and try again
\nWait a few minutes and try again
\n We apologize for this inconvenience.

\nThis is the first Microsoft Hotmail outage that I have seen in quite some time. Guess I'll be using my GMail account this morning.
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\nFurther, 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.
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\nHere's the text copy/pasted from my browser:
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Server Too Busy

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\nAnd here's a screenshot. Click for larger version.
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\nUpdate: 9:56am
\nIt appears that www.live.com is back up, however, Hotmail still gives the same error message.
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\nUpdate: 2/26/08 - 10:30am - another outage
\nAnother Hotmail outage. I was in the middle of checking for an important registration email too. :(