Hotmail and Outlook hit by ongoing fault, Microsoft confirms

[Jazzy]

Users of Outlook and Hotmail webmail services have been hit by a lengthy fault, Microsoft has confirmed.



A status message informed users on Wednesday morning about the issues, with the company adding it was working to restore service right now.



Users reported not seeing emails that should have reached their accounts.



Microsoft is in the process of migrating millions of users from Hotmail, which launched in 1998, to new Outlook.com accounts.



Problems began to hit the services on Tuesday evening, with Microsoft acknowledging it had a problem at 21:35 GMT.



According to reports, some users noted being unable to see certain emails in the accounts, while others reported email was simply inaccessible altogether.



A message posted to Microsoft's service status page on Wednesday morning said: Fixing the problem is taking longer than we hoped. We apologise for the lengthy interruption in service.



It said a further update would be posted by Wednesday at 13:12 GMT.

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Jeez, and I thought Yahoo was bad.



Did any of you get this message?

 

[DrLeftover]

I just went and checked my Hotmail.com account, which I thought was going to become an Outlook.com account and had the address reslove on log in to a Mail.Live.com address.



So, in short... I have no idea what the hell they did.

 

[DrLeftover]

AND IN FURTHER DEVELOPMENTS



There was an email in my inbox to click on the thing to upgrade the thing to the thing.



Which I did.



And got this;

Sorry, Outlook.com upgrades aren’t available right now



















Hotmail Help & How-to









Thanks for your interest in Outlook.com. We’re upgrading millions of customers every day and have currently reached our limit. Please try again later.

In the meantime, you can still send and receive email using your Hotmail inbox.

 

[Evil Eye]

Brilliant.



And no, I did not get any emails of the sort.