Anyone Else Haveing A Problem Logging Into Hotmail Today?

Canada
February 26, 2008 8:23am CST
This morning when I tried to log into my hotmail account it was in transition forever, and then when the page finally did change, I got a white page that said "Service Unavailable." My husband logged in just fine from his computer, on the other side of the room. Can anyone tell me what is going on, or if you've had the same problem as I have? Thanks!!!
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@patgalca (18481)
• Orangeville, Ontario
26 Feb 08
I haven't been able to log in to MSN. I tried this morning and it said to try again later. This same thing happened to me over the weekend. I don't know what they are up to over there but I am not getting my live updates because of it. I usually get automatic notification of new emails but because I'm technically not logged onto MSN I don't. I know yesterday I tried to get to my email (sympatico, which is the same as hotmail now) and got page cannot be found. I figured it timed out and tried again and it worked the second time. I haven't tried to log into MSN for a second time yet today. But it does seem like they are experiencing some difficulties, or doing some upgrading.
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• Canada
26 Feb 08
Nothing like an upgrade to screw things up. Thanks for your resonse.
@patgalca (18481)
• Orangeville, Ontario
26 Feb 08
I tried again but I still can't log on to MSN. :(
@nixxi76 (3191)
• Canada
26 Feb 08
Something similar happened to me with hotmail not more than a month ago, I would try to log into hotmail, and it kept directing me to log in. Finally I got frustrated enough and I decided to get my hubby to check his, and that was fine, his worked. I called my brother and he told me that because I've had this email for 10 yrs maybe over that it's running on an older server and it's because of that. I just waited it out and it worked again about 2 hrs later. I'm not sure about how much of what he said was true, and I didn't realise that if you had an older account with hotmail that this could ever happen.
• Canada
26 Feb 08
Patience isn't one of my strong points. Good point about the servers. That's been an issue with us before, when I've not been able to get something but my husband has, and vice versa.
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@nixxi76 (3191)
• Canada
26 Feb 08
I know alllllllllll about that! There's no such thing as a happy medium when it comes to hotmail sometimes.
@youless (114117)
• Guangzhou, China
28 Feb 08
This problem happened to me last night. I was unable to check my email from the website. But fortunately I could check it by Outlook Express. Perhaps at that time Hotmail's server had some problems. I am glad that this problem was fixed this morning.
@violeta_va (4831)
• Australia
26 Feb 08
thank god it happend to more people or I was going to kill my husband :) he was mesing with the computer just before I was using it and could not open my mail I had been trying to log in for 2 hours and I just finaly managed to open it. Well if they are working on it could they say so isntead I get the stupid white screen with can not be found thing on it.
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• Canada
26 Feb 08
Hahahaha Your response made me laugh. I'm glad my discussion saved the life of your husband. I've had days like that too, but my husband is too valuable to kill. He's the head tech geek for his company in AZ. I don't need to call tech support, I can just call him! ;-)
• Australia
26 Feb 08
my husband thinks he knows a lot but honestly he dosnt (dont tell him I said that I often play dumb just to make him feel good) oh well poor thing at least he tries he does know a bit about computers but he is a bit behind (say 3-4 years)
@Chey1970 (1186)
• United States
26 Feb 08
Evidently hotmail was down first thing this morning, for I had trouble in getting it to load too. It seems to be working now, for I am in hotmail at the present time.
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• Canada
26 Feb 08
I just signed in again, and it appears to be up and running for me, aprox half an hour after I started this discussion. Let's hope it stays up. All of my Gather mail is in my Hotmail account, and today I'm motivated to make some money, and earn some points. Here's hoping it stays up and running.
@naseefu (1607)
• India
11 May 08
It had seen many times with another sites.It may be because your internet sevice provider. Usually the hotmail takes more time to log on than the gmail or yahoo or such sites.Thanks
• Kuwait
26 Feb 08
ITs been long time since i close my email address in hotmail.i dont trust the safety of the website..but yeah maybe it is from the internet connection.
@Ohara_1983 (4117)
• Kuwait
26 Feb 08
maybe the problem that you got is from your connection, sometimes it happen to me specially if the server is down, this time it make me sick.
@Ravenladyj (22902)
• United States
26 Feb 08
Yea I'm having Hotmail issues too today....and its driving me nuts..I keep getting alerts that mail has come in but I cant get to my account! Its beyond annoying!!
@k1tten (2315)
• United States
27 Feb 08
My one apartment mate had problems logging in today. Not sure if she's still having problems though. No clue what was going on with it though. Sorry.
@arkaf61 (10881)
• Canada
27 Feb 08
Yes I had that problem just a few weeks back. I wouldn't be able to log in. But today it seems to have been down for some time. I didn't try it but both my daughter and the secretary in my school told me they were having problems.
@Grandmaof2 (7578)
• Canada
26 Feb 08
I'm not sure what's going on but I had a glitch too. I had a heck of a time geting on today. Thank You for your post, good to know it's not just my putter. Take Care...
@Mirita (2668)
• United States
26 Feb 08
Yes, I had the same problem as you ,but everything seems to be okay now. I had no idea what happened. Maybe they were upgrading something.
@littleowl (7157)
28 Feb 08
hi danishcanadian yes i have had the similar type of problem and it has worried a bit as my notebook is new and wouldn't of thought i would get this type of problem when signing into hotmail on a new notrbook- i would like to know what is going on too-littleowl
• United States
26 Feb 08
Yes, I am, too. An error code come up and says to troubleshoot or try later.