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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."

8 of 443 comments (clear)

  1. I've seen Slashdot go down by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Slashdot has gone down before... I think it was last month? Maybe you guys should put a frontpage article detailing that; hypocrites.

  2. BSD is dead!!! by Stefman · · Score: 2, Troll

    Maybe it was another attempt to switch from BSD to Windows servers. Don't they know it doesn't work...give it up!!!

  3. My god, how is this news? by henriksh · · Score: -1, Troll

    How very exiting!

    A website offline for a few hours, then back up again. Website owner confirms that it was a trivial problem.

    How on earth is this Slashdot front page material? Because it was Microsoft's site? Pathetic.

  4. Two days ago.. ahh, the times by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Man, the news two days ago was so cool. MUCH cooler than anything today. Man, two days ago rocked. /sarcasm

  5. MACs susx!!! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll
    The CrApple MACinTrash running MAC OS uX!!! by CrApple CEO Steven Polish BloJobs!! ahHAH

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  6. MACs susx!!! (Socre:5, Insightful) . . . . . . . . by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    The CrApple MACinTrash running MAC OS uX!!! by CrApple CEO Steven Polish BloJobs!! ahHAH

  7. Re:Well it just figures by displaced80 · · Score: 0, Troll

    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...

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  8. Stop the madnes! by Brandybuck · · Score: 0, Troll

    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.

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