Windows Live ID issues continue - Transparency: 0, Switching to GMail: 1

re: Windows Live ID issues continue - Transparency: 0, Switching to GMail: 1

SteveBallmer — Sun, 02 Mar 2008 20:01:19 GMT

Loyalty is such a rare commodity anymore!

re: Windows Live ID issues continue - Transparency: 0, Switching to GMail: 1

Chris — Sat, 01 Mar 2008 21:18:20 GMT

Yeah the outage itself isn't necessarily a big deal, and in the end it happens to all services, this one was just slightly more noticeable. Frustrating, but service has been much better in the last few years.

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quikboy — Sat, 01 Mar 2008 05:57:37 GMT

I don't hate Gmail or Yahoo! Mail, but I think it's absolutely ridiculous to switch to another provider just because there was a day (or 2 for the few that were unlucky) that there connection to their mail was disabled.

As if Yahoo Mail and Gmail haven't suffered their own outage:

blogs.zdnet.com/BTL

blogs.zdnet.com/Foremski

And this IS a free service. The only way I can think of MS repaying you back for those the day or two lost is adding new features or giving you a free Hotmail Plus account for a year. A bit extreme, but that could work. :^)

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Kip Kniskern — Sat, 01 Mar 2008 00:09:44 GMT

It could be just semantics, but the only "announcement" coming from Microsoft was the post on the Email Support Space. The other two were emailed privately to journalists who requested information, and were "put on hold" before they received even these replies. Microsoft, except for the Email Support Space post, made no public "announcement" of the issue at all.

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jkavanagh58 — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 20:46:34 GMT

Are you kidding me? I am not saying the service is perfect, then again you have hotmail because you are not paying. Outages are frustrating but considering the timing of these outages and the announcements being made, a little pain as your free service is enhanced.

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rgonzruiz — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 10:26:12 GMT

Amen