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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."
Maybe it was another attempt to switch from BSD to Windows servers. Don't they know it doesn't work...give it up!!!
Why on earth is Exchange so horrifically bad? It's the bane of my life at work... and the worst thing is we don't run the server ... we just get all the calls from staff: "my email's down!"
Anyone wanna join me on a T-2 style trip back in time to kill the creators of Exchange/Outlook before they can create the damn thing? Or at least try to reason with them...
What's the frequency, Kenneth?
Well, if they would stop trying to replace their reliable FreeBSD and Solaris servers with their own "dog food", they wouldn't have this problem. Just continue with their current practice of having the visible servers running WS2003 so no one knows about the others, and Bill and Steve can sleep easily at night.
Don't blame me, I didn't vote for either of them!