MS Hotmail Offline For Hours

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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This is news??? Who the fuck cares!

[Anonymous Coward]

God, how fucking petty is slashdot getting???

Sure, hotmail was down, boo-hoo. It's a free email service. Deal with it.

Why is slashdot determined to report every single trivial detail when it comes to Microsoft? Try to stick with the big stories, please, not "Bill Gates forgets to lift toilet seat!" or "Steve Ballmer takes up two parking spaces in Microsoft parking lot!"

Re:This is news??? Who the fuck cares!

[xxx_Birdman_xxx]

It might seem petty, but the reality is that there is a huge number of people that use hotmail on a regular basis.. this kind of downage affects a lot of people.

What is interesting is how:
- Microsoft responds, their press releases etc.
- Possible reasons for failure
- What others can learn from these kind of failures, to prevent them happening.
- That such a large system that must deal with a massive number of requests has completely gone down instead of the service degrading due to servers failing, etc..

Lighten up a bit, i'm honestly suprised it would go down for a significant amount of time.

Lets get this straight

[AvengerXP]

No "customers" were harmed. The only people who use Hotmail are people who are too poor/lazy to install their own ISP's mail system on their machines.

And if you base your business on Hotmail, i'd say you have a serious I.T. decisions problem.