Windows Live Hotmail Down
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This weekend many Hotmail users have been reporting problems in accessing their accounts. They are getting errors like Server is Temporarily Unavailable etc.. while they try to log into their accounts.Microsoft acknowledged the problems immediately. Confirmation of the email service’s downtime served to inform frustrated users of what was happening, but they still had to wait a few hours before Windows Live Hotmail was up and running again. Microsoft announced that only a limited group of users were impacted, having been locked out of their accounts.
“Just wanted to let everyone know we’re aware of the difficulties accessing Hotmail/Live Hotmail right now – you may get “Server is Temporarily Unavailable” when logging in. We’re working hard right now to restore service to all users, and we apologize for the inconvenience,” reads a message from Microsoft Email Support Space on July 27.
While Hotmail is back into action now and is working fine, but still there is official reason from Microsoft as to what exactly happened. But Microsoft has denied any loss of data.
15 Comments, Comment or Ping
Janet
Can access title page and input both address and password, next, blank screen appears and does not load.
Aug 13th, 2007
Edmond Jackson
Varied messages, such as ‘Unable to locate message’, essentially from this afternoon I can neither send nor receive messages via Outlook Express, nor log onto my account via your website.
Hotmail has served me very well over the years and it is a great disappointment that you have got involved with Windows - which from the very start is living up to its reputation for problems.
Aug 20th, 2007
Karthik Kastury
Yes Hotmail has been down for quite a while. I for one personally feel that gmail is better..
Aug 21st, 2007
Neal
aaargh - so i’m not alone in this - haven’t been able to access the “new” hotmail since Monday and there seems to be no offical word on the problem!!!
Aug 24th, 2007
mike
same issues as janet, pasword seems ok then the page cant open. seems like microsoft needs to remember the valuble lesson “if it aint broke dont fix it”.
~what was wrong with XP exactly?~
Sep 15th, 2007
Karthik Kastury
Now this is crazy. This has been happening for the past 45 days and Microsoft still hasn’t fixed this..
Guys consider shifting over to gmail.
Sep 15th, 2007
Carol
My Hotmail account is currently inaccessible. Ever since the Windows up-grade (so-called) my account freezes once or twice a day. Typical of the mess Microsoft makes of its systems. Will check out gmail but NEED ACCESS TO MY ACCOUNT. Microsoft, what gives?
Sep 18th, 2007
Alex
I cannot access my hotmail account. I get a blank white screen with a title bar accross the top.
Sep 19th, 2007
Alex
cannot access my hotmail account. I get white screen with title bar accross top.
Sep 19th, 2007
Karthik Kastury
Hey Alex this problem hasn’t been solved yet. I have to email the Hotmail team about this i Guess
Sep 19th, 2007
Jes h
When will this end. Just because some Marketing dept links up with a few techies, they think up all the ‘new’ and ‘enhanced customer experiences’ for their public. I have had a hotmail account for over 10 years now and this has been the worst period by far. Repeated attempts to access are just met with a blank screen.
The guys should be fired as they do more harm than good for microsoft.
Oct 2nd, 2007
Karl Schieneman
I get a white screen. Sometimes when I refresh I can get in. Got in 1 time out of 10 attempts tonight. I really need to get in right now. Please fix it.
Jan 12th, 2008
Steve Love
when I click on hotmail nothing comes up no sign in page at all
Jan 14th, 2008
Mogana
Hi,
When I tries login on my email add which i have been using for the past >8 years , am getting that my mail add does not exist and after many login attempts i get that my account is locked, this has been happening for the last few days… Can Anyone help me here . Thanks
May 1st, 2008
sultan
FYI, this seems similar to a similar problem with Windows Update. Installing the scripting engine from this web page: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/836948 solved this problem for me.
Jun 27th, 2008
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