Is Hotmail down for you?

[onthedownlow]

I haven't been able to access it or MSN.com for the last 10+ minutes...on several different machines.

They just announced/released today an online chat system/web-based Messenger (a-la Facebook) integrated into Hotmail. I wonder if that is bringing them down.

[OWC Jamie]

http://downforeveryoneorjustme.com/

[onthedownlow]

Thanks! I remember that site now...completely forgot about it.

It says Hotmail is up...but MSN is down - although I can't access either. I'm sure it's touch and go right now.

[NewtonMP2100]

. . .maybe it is down. . .on the down low. . .?

[Jimmypoo]

I've always been down on HotMail ever since the scourge of computer society bought them,
let alone when they blocked Safari.

[JoeH]

Also have never recommended hotmail since the acquisition. At my previous job, the single largest group of mail log errors was due to email not going through to hotmail addresses. Whatever type of error could be reported was there in from the hotmail servers. Never mind the email accepted but never delivered.

[Jimmypoo]

in addition to that 30 day policy where they dumped your account and all the email and addresses,
but would let you back in, on the same password, and never deleted the name.

I understand the need to know how may to set advertising rates, but that was a mess, doing it for many
months straight, and I lost everything in a Feb, when they didn't observe their own "30 Day Log-In" policy.

[onthedownlow]

Well, that site and other Microsoft-based sites are down still...depending on what access you are taking to get there (and your ISP's backbone).

Doing some exhaustive testing with a LAN Engineer, once packets hit up Seattle...they are staling out - so things must be happening where the servers (at least the routes my packets are taking).