Hotmail back up after outage

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By Ina Fried, 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.

  2. 2. anonymous

    looks like it's down AGAIN.

  3. 3. anonymous

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

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