Anyone Experiencing Hotmail Issues?

[William33 110]

Wondering if anyone else is "jammed up" on Hotmail at this time.....

Site has not been working for two days now..

Thoughts?

[TheBears 9]

No problems here.

[SuperDuper! 230]

No problems here either. Maybe W33 needs to check his equipment

[Rhiannercakes 14]

No problems for me either.

[Hilarious Clinton 452]

I found the solution..... get Gmail.

[Teacher Mark 53]

Kafkaesque cloud outage traps Microsoft Hotmailers

You are offline and that is why you are lost

By Gavin Clarke in San Francisco

Microsoft has apologized for a cloud outage that saw its customer support services evaporate.

The Windows Live Solutions Center was offline for several hours on Tuesday thanks to what Microsoft called a "temporary server issue" that "intermittently prevented some consumers from accessing content on the site."

Which was a really problem for Hotmail users who'd turned to Windows Live Solutions Center to report the problem.

Users had been told their Hotmail accounts were undergoing "maintenance" estimated to last an hour, but that it had been days since they'd been able to access their emails.

One reader contacted The Reg to say he'd got the following error message:

Server Error: 5102 Server Response: Xfs request 'GetAccountData' failed. Response code: 'ResourceMarkedDown', server response: '721 0' Server: 'http://mail.services.live.com/DeltaSync_v2.0.0/Sync.aspx' Windows Live Mail Error ID: 0x8DE20003

Those who hit the Windows Live Solutions Center were greeted with this:

Windows Live Solution Center is currently experiencing technical difficulties. You may receive an error such as "Page Cannot be Displayed" when attempting to view the site. We are aware of the issue and are working with our Operations team to resolve the problem.

Microsoft was unable say what caused the problem with Hotmail. It said Windows Live Solutions Center was up and running again by 3:00pm Pacific time on Tuesday. A spokesperson told The Reg Wednesday there were no known Windows Live issues yesterday or today.

So, problem solved. Or not. ®

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/05/05/windows_live_hotmail_outage/

Edited May 6, 2010 by Mr. Saigon

[rsn 135]

I found the solution..... get Gmail.

Yea, seriously. I lump hotmail into the same category as AOL. Yahoo has made an attempt to improve their email web interface, but I wasn't impressed when I checked it out a little while back. Gmail is excellent. I wish my office would let me forward my email to my Gmail account so I don't have to suffer with Outlook - the worst email client on earth.

[alienlovechild 75]

Wondering if anyone else is "jammed up" on Hotmail at this time.....

Site has not been working for two days now..

Thoughts?

You might trying being a bit more specific as to your problem.

http://www.visajourney.com/forums/topic/249048-what-happened-to-hotmailcom/page__p__3829487__hl__hotmail__fromsearch__1entry3829487

In my case, I think I had go to Tools, then Internet Options and delete my browsing history. Took me forever to find someone who could help me out. Hotmail solution center of whatever they call it was a mess and not very helpful.

[Aubrey 10]

As a long time user of BOTH hotmail and Gmail, I have to agree: use Gmail. I have been trying to migrate everything to my Gmail account for some time, but ... eh, I signed up for too much.

Why Gmail:

Archive (no need to delete)

Colored labels

Replys thread, instead of millions of separate emails

Yeah, go Gmail!

[dakay ♥ 10]

No problems for me either

[Obama 2012 1,714]

people still use hotmail?

[Marilyn. 340]

yup, I have used hotmail for years... have had no real problems with it...

I also have a yahoo and gmail account too but I rarely use them....

[Saddle Bronc 124]

I had some problems of spam emails sent to many of my contacts. When I asked a store (which deals in used/rebuilt computers and also services existing ones) across the street, they stated they would need to back-up important data and "blow" the hard drive--as it was XP, they would need the recovery-CD to do so. I solved it by buying an external HD, backing my data to it and then changing the password on my hotmail to a "strong" one (this would have been necessary as well). This type of spam comes when Outlook (or Outlook Express) is configured to read emails (for those who never configure these to read hotmail no such problem).

I do have a Gmail account (tied to VJ for emails) accessed "once in blue-moon".

[William33 110]

My problem was page loading, which resulted in an error as described in post 6. The problem has been resolved.

I have g-mail also, but I keep the hotmail account since most people I know send e-mail there.

Thanks for the comments everyone.