Tag Archives: Outage
Microsoft explains the DNS service outage of September 8
Sep 20, 2011 by Kip Kniskern
A couple of weeks ago, on September 8th, a number of Windows Live Services, including Hotmail and SkyDrive, became unreachable via their respective… Read more
Hotmail, Windows Live services “recovering”, or are they?
Sep 8, 2011 by Kip Kniskern
Earlier this evening (Pacific Daylight time), Hotmail, SkyDrive, all the .live.com services, MSN.com, Office 365, and live@edu addresses went… Read more
Hotmail, MSN, Office 365, live.com sites down (… and back up again)
Sep 8, 2011 by Kip Kniskern
A number of Microsoft online services, including Hotmail, MSN, Office 365, and seemingly most if not all of *.live.com addresses are currently… Read more
Zune Marketplace, sign-in down
Jan 15, 2011 by Kip Kniskern
Some parts of Zune.net, including the Marketplace and (at least here) the ability to sign in to your Zune account from the Zune software are down… Read more
Hotmail outage explained, preventative steps taken (we suggest some more of our own)
Jan 6, 2011 by Kip Kniskern
Today on the Inside Windows Live blog, to their credit, the Windows Live team through Mike Schackwitz explained what happened in the Hotmail outage… Read more
Missing Hotmail emails: they’re back (sorta)
Jan 2, 2011 by Kip Kniskern
Just a quick update on the great missing email/folders caper over at Hotmail, a number of Facebook fans of the “Hotmail…wth”… Read more
Empty email accounts, and some bad buzz for Hotmail
Jan 1, 2011 by Kip Kniskern
In the past few days, a number of Hotmail users have been complaining on WindowsLiveHelp.com about a rather disconcerting issue: their Hotmail… Read more
Did Windows Live Calendar cancel November?
Nov 1, 2010 by Kip Kniskern
LiveSide reader Alex alerted us to a problem with Windows Live Calendar that apparently started within the last 24 hours or so, where users have… Read more
Windows Live Calendar Wave 4 upgrade causing calendars and events to disappear?
Jun 17, 2010 by damaster
Earlier this month, one of my Windows Live accounts started to encounter some problems, as none of my calendars and events would like to load in Windows… Read more
