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MS Hotmail Offline For Hours

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the trustworthy-computing dept.

chalker writes "According to CNN, and others, the Hotmail online e-mail service, operated by Microsoft, was down for most of the working day on Friday, affecting 'a significant portion of MS customers.' People are also having trouble accessing products such as the MSN Messenger instant messaging program. The company said it was an internal problem rather than an attack on its system and that it hoped to have service restored by 5:30 p.m. PST. As of 8:15 PM EST, Hotmail appears to be online again."

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  1. Re:Well it WAS working until you /.'ed it. by ndogg · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    note topic?

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  2. Re:Well it just figures by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Damn that was funny. You think up that one all by yourself?

  3. Re:Dammit by tomstdenis · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    That was all convincing until I remembered that I used to build my own 386/486/socket7 systems when I was a kid.... ;-)

    "hard to build"... my ass. Ya it was "harder" than a MAC but it wasn't life altering trauma here... open the manual [shocker!] put the jumpers in the right places and plug it in a freely available ISA slot. Whoa hard...

    The crux of the reason why MACs are less popular [though not at schools which are often MAC whores for no reason.... ya need it for photoshop!] is because they're more expensive, have crappy mice, were hard to expand on your own, etc....

    That and Windows really caters to the lower end IQ users. I don't recall seeing a taskbar the last time I used MAC OS X... Personally I need at least a tasklist/pager to use a desktop. My bet [based on the popularity] is that many others do too ;-)

    Tom

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  4. Re:Well it just figures by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    They (still) run unix (BSD) on the backend and have a SHITLOAD of IIS boxes serving the http.
    Not a huge secret.......
    If everyone wasnt so worried about people "eating thier own dogfood" life would be better.
    So MS uses the best tool for the job....SO FUCKING WHAT???
    I personally dont think windows has any reason to be on a sever(and by server i dont mean "the linux box firewalling my home network, or even my samba PDC...nope i mean servers that thousands and hundreds of thousands of people use)

    I think If you are NOT gonna use the best tool available for the job at hand, you are retarded.

    its like trying to use a linux box to do any serious gaming.

    or even any NON-serious gaming.
    tell my kid he cant play all his stupid ass disney/whatever games cause we are a unix only house...wouldnt be pretty i assure you.
    tell me i cant have my linux boxes....same thing.

    and it is YOU that is wrong....you think just cause you use a hammer to fix everything everyone else must too???
    (and yes I know for sure I am right....I work for MSN and a good portion of my time is spent on fixing peoples mail.)
    fucking retard