Hotmail users suffer through outage
It's not easy running an online e-mail service with hundreds of millions of users.
Later on the same day that Yahoo Mail wasn't available to a small fraction of its users, Hotmail had troubles with disappearing in-boxes. Here's the company statement:
"On Thursday evening, there was a short-term service disruption which prevented Windows Live Hotmail customers worldwide from accessing their in-box for approximately two hours. Microsoft worked quickly to restore access. No data was lost during the outage. Microsoft apologizes for any inconvenience this may have caused." The company didn't share details about how many people were affected.
E-mail is central to the lives of a growing number of people, but nobody's perfect when it comes to offering the service. Comcast had an e-mail outage on Saturday, and Google's Gmail went down in February.
Stephen Shankland writes about a wide range of technology and products, but has a particular focus on browsers and digital photography. He joined CNET News in 1998 and since then also has covered Google, Yahoo, servers, supercomputing, Linux and open-source software, and science. E-mail Stephen, or follow him on Twitter at http://www.twitter.com/stshank. 
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George Post
HOTMAIL SUCKS ....
And don't get me started on yahoo's over-bloated new 'look'
All you MS haters, move along and go play with your ipods.
For example, I can't install/run "MS Live Mail" on OS X. Wouldn't they code or can't? Of course not, it is just they WON'T use it.
The service you are defending with calling people names suggests people to install IE while they use OS X Safari.
I use yahoo mail for historical reasons but I haven't seen it not working right a single time just because I don't use IE. Actually, my mail provider is Fastmail.fm , I prefer paid and supported services which isn't tied to big companies.
Also, Gmail's spam filters are super effective and their forwarding service is free, as well as POP access should I decide to switch to an email client later.
Hotmail's issue is simple. Windows can't scale as good as Unix. They took an amazingly stable thing (for 1990s) which was Linux/UNIX and converted it to Windows. We see what happens if their main interest is giving other browsers rather than IE some "quirks" rather than offering a good webmail service.
Wonder why as Yahoo user, I was horrified and started packing when I heard about MS takeover?
Hotmail users suffer through hotmail usage.
Just kidding..
Not really...
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- by wadah1111 April 13, 2009 7:29 AM PDT
- LOL people I didn't notice this outage since the first time I used hotmail. I don't know may be I missed it or it missed me?
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- by ikramerica--2008 April 13, 2009 3:45 PM PDT
- you weren't checking mail for those two hours?
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