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Hotmail back up after outage

…but what was the problem?

By Ina Fried on 27 February 2008 09:39

NEWS

After a day of problems yesterday, Microsoft says its Windows Live log-in issues are now resolved.

Although a large number of Windows Live servers are running on Microsoft's Windows Server 2008, which is due to be launched today, a representative said the problem is not a glitch with the new operating system.

Windows Live product manager, Samantha McManus, said in a statement: "We can say with certainty that Windows Server did not contribute to this incident."

Microsoft was far less detailed when it comes to what the problem actually was.

McManus said: "This issue appears to have been related to an unexpected event which caused device overload and failure."

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  1. 1. Richard

    Spam is flowing again so it must be working now.

    This morning, I received the happy news that I've "won" another 2.6M "Pounds."

    This should help pay the government's new ID fines.

    • 27 February 2008 11:21
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  2. 2. anonymous

    looks like it's down AGAIN.

    • 27 February 2008 13:11
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  3. 3. anonymous

    same problem this morning for me! Can't even get to log-in

    • 27 February 2008 13:47
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