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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."

14 of 443 comments (clear)

  1. GNAA --It feels good in the sphincter by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Hello Ghey NIGGAZ!

    1. Re:GNAA --It feels good in the sphincter by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic
      Hi. How may I beat you?

      http://imdb.com/title/tt0274518/

  2. the ugly mofo Kerry by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    the ugly frenchmen traitor kerry shall never be President! LONG LIVE PRESIDENT BUSH!!!

    1. Re:the ugly mofo Kerry by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      Yeah cuz Dubya is a looker.

    2. Re:the ugly mofo Kerry by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      ill laugh when his campaign falls jsut like "Dr" Dean

  3. 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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  4. 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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  5. SCORE +1: USERS by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    yes the joys

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

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

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  7. Re:Dammit by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Umm, why is this "girlfriend" using the computer. If she's using the computer that means shes probably not cooking, cleaning, or servicing your member. In what way is she a girlfriend??

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


    So what if I am a lesbian?

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  9. Re:Dammit by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    If she's using the computer that means shes probably not cooking, cleaning, or servicing your member.

    I prefer my girlfriend not to cook my member. Cleaning and servicing (10,000km oil change), sure!.

  10. Re:Well it just figures by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I'm sure you're a troll, but I feel like biting, nothing better to do.

    "So MS uses the best tool for the job....SO FUCKING WHAT???"

    MS has marketed Windows as the best solution for anything, except maybe system critical machines, for ages.

    Hotmail is NOT system critical, therefore they are not "practicing what they preach". If they can't practice what they preach, why should we practice what they preach?

  11. 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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