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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:In other news.... by Alcohol+Fueled · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    I know you were being funny, but your comment made me think. Hotmail is a huge source of spam, and with it being down, I wonder how many spam messages couldn't be sent on Friday. Oh well, I guess there's a good and a bad to that.
    • Good: We don't get as many penis enlargement, hot horny teen, mortgage your house spams for a short period.
    • Bad: Microsoft has a screwed up day on Friday.


    ... Wait, maybe I have the good and the bad mixed up. I dunno. :(

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  2. Re:Thanks, Microsoft! by Alcohol+Fueled · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    What are you going to do, go fuck him back with your newly enlarged penis? Lol, sorry. Its 4:05 am and I'm terribly tired. =(

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  3. Re:Thanks, Microsoft! by antek9 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Not that funny anyway. Looks like you were trying hard, though...

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  4. Re:Sort of. by Tokerat · · Score: 0, Offtopic


    So what if I am a lesbian?

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  5. Purging MSN from my life by OYAHHH · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    I've,

    Gotton rid of MSN altogether in my life by going as far as putting the following entry in my robots.txt file:

    User-agent: msnbot
    Disallow: /

    They only ever accounted for a few legit hits a month on my website anyway.

    Using this technique may make MS less able to dominate the Internet. Or it might not. You never know...

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