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Hotmail, MSN, Office 365, live.com sites down (…and back up again)

Sep 8, 2011 9:14 pm by Kip Kniskern | 51 comments

A number of Microsoft online services, including Hotmail, MSN, Office 365, and seemingly most if not all of *.live.com addresses are currently “experiencing an outage”. MSN and Office 365 have already tweeted about it:

We're currently experiencing an outage at http://www.msn.com We're aware of the issue and working to resolve it. Thanks for your patience.

Sep 8, 2011 8:43 PM via TweetDeck ReplyRetweetFavorite

@MSN

MSN

#Office365 We are investigating service interruption. Will update as soon as more details are available or within hour.

Sep 8, 2011 8:43 PM via webReply RetweetFavorite

@Office365

Office 365

Omar Shahine, a SkyDrive Program Manager, has also just tweeted that SkyDrive, too is “currently experiencing … a service outage”, and the SkyDrive Twitter account just acknowledged the outage, too.

Some services, such as downforeveryoneorjustme.com, report that Hotmail is up, and with the massive power outage suffered in the American Southwest, it may be that it’s more of an internet routing issue than problems with Hotmail, etc., themselves.

Of course, Google’s online services suffered a short outage yesterday as they were rolling out offline services for Google Docs, so maybe we can hope that this is all about new services coming to Windows Live! (we doubt it, though).

Or of course it could be something else entirely.

Hopefully it will be resolved soon, as well as the power outages.

Update: as of 9:30 (moments after we posted, of course), Hotmail is back up again, and MSN is too, although images aren’t loading correctly yet

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http://twitter.com/EpsilonFive Joshua Boruch
And back down again. :(
Anonymous
Still down for us in Sri Lanka (10AM IST)
http://twitter.com/rigel137 Kelly
Able to login to skydrive, but there’s an error message… (11.40 AM +7GMT)
Xwd
Still down for N.Europe.
http://www.andrewtechhelp.com/ Andrew Tech Help
Exchange Activesync never had any issues checking for & receiving Mail on my Windows Phone while the websites were down, so it must have just been a web server issue.
Tom Amodeo
Here is a screen shot…
http://twitter.com/registradus Marcus
Yeah not working for me in Australia…
Jbw59
Washington DC area is still down!
Ted_89
Ottawa Canada down as well.
Anonymous
Vermont still has hotmail and skydrive down. Skydrive went down right before hotmail but luckily I emailed my report i had uploaded to skydrive before it went out.
iowan
not up in iowa
Sara
Still down…
http://twitter.com/coastaltourism Lotus Ray
Our live business e-mail is down here in India.
Milakre
Here in Puebla (Mexico) also down 21:53 ET (23:53 CT)
Rev_co17
still down in Canada, Ontario eh lol
Farmboy1x
At 12:02 AM CDT the whole system is still down for users in the Des Moines, Iowa area.
Devnull
1:04 a.m, Friday Sep 9: Arlington VA, USA – still down
Anonymous
Down in Atlanta, GA. It seems like it is an internet explorer problem as well. A lot of sites are showing up half downloaded.
Alienliquid
my hotmails been down for 4 months since i was blocked for using the wrong password three times.. the same password iv used for 2 years… after jumping through hoops with windows ‘dead’ solutions i finally went with there suggestion of opening a new account, i did….with yahoo..
http://www.facebook.com/people/Steve-Millar/1345023988 Steve Millar
Not exactly a good ad for Office 365!
A.Arcaute
Still down in Havana, Cuba
http://twitter.com/harrisonhoffman Harrison Hoffman
Hey everyone,
Speaking from a SkyDrive/Hotmail perspective, we have resolved the problem and the service is in the process of recovering around the world, which just takes a little time. Thanks for your patience and sorry for the inconvenience!
http://twitter.com/#!/SkyDrive/status/112027546694066176
Who Dere?
Mobile mail is still down as of 1:15pm Eastern– Charleston, WV
Dymestar18
Hotmail still won’t load on my browser. It shows an error message.
Alberta, Canada
Deepak
Down here in san jose CA
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Judee
s1:23am till down. ON- Canada
Brandon776
get your shit together hotmail
blahblahblah
still down, but a way to “backdoor” in to your account to see if you have anything in your inbox…which doesn’t do any good if you can’t open your mail…
lauren
Down in Ft Worth Texas
J_J_A
NY is down
smh
HOUSTON TEXAS DOWN..and i need this email for college!!!.smh.
Joe
Down down down baby …!
Dantana66
Still down in Venezuela
JL Miller
Down in East Tn @ 1:37am
Htpttyo1
down here in FL
Camorrisson
still down in louisiana
juju
Still down Chicago IL
Adrian
still down in chicago
http://www.facebook.com/people/Robert-Densic/100002265120211 Robert Densic
Still down here in Ohio
Par_none
Down here in NE Pennsylvania too
Montez
still down in Georgia
Dantana66
se tiro tres!
MiKE
current discussion about it on reddit: http://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/k9o6j/is_hotmail_down_due_to_the_poweroutage_in/
Xyz
hi
try hotmail.com without www.
Use this url http://hotmail.com
- J_J_A
  Nope, when I use http://hotmail.com and also hotmail.com all I get is “Domain not found mail.live.com”
Lauris
In EU still not working…
Joe
Up in Dallas now.
Buckeyechamps
Yep back up and runnin here in Ohio
Dantana66
Ready in Venezuela, working fine.
Chemical
Works fine for me in France
SEW
Been down now for 24 hours in Atlanta