# Anyone else having trouble with Hotmail today?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-else-having-trouble-with-hotmail-today/443590>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [April 1, 2008, 10:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-else-having-trouble-with-hotmail-today/443590 "2008-04-01T22:02:42Z")\
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**Author:** ![Stan\_Shmenge](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/94ad74/32.png) [@Stan\_Shmenge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stan_Shmenge)\
**Post date:** [April 1, 2008, 10:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-else-having-trouble-with-hotmail-today/443590/1 "2008-04-01T22:02:42Z")

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I send messages but they do not receive them in a timely fashion or at all.

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**Author:** ![KlondikeGeoff](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/3e96dc/32.png) [@KlondikeGeoff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KlondikeGeoff)\
**Post date:** [April 1, 2008, 10:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-else-having-trouble-with-hotmail-today/443590/2 "2008-04-01T22:21:48Z")

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[QUOTE=Happy Wanderer]  
I send messages but they do not receive them in a timely fashion or at all.  
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I sent myself a message from another email server and it got there OK in about a minute, as did a message I sent from there, so OK here.

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**Author:** ![Stan\_Shmenge](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/94ad74/32.png) [@Stan\_Shmenge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stan_Shmenge)\
**Post date:** [April 1, 2008, 10:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-else-having-trouble-with-hotmail-today/443590/3 "2008-04-01T22:25:40Z")

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It just seems like Hotmail is getting more and more flaky. They seem to be messing around with Live a lot. It keeps acting wonky on my system. A simple message to another hotmail account just took 40 minutes to get there. A follow up with a small .xls attachment still hasn’t arrived after almost an hour. I am getting tired of this.

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**Author:** ![KlondikeGeoff](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/3e96dc/32.png) [@KlondikeGeoff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KlondikeGeoff)\
**Post date:** [April 2, 2008, 1:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-else-having-trouble-with-hotmail-today/443590/4 "2008-04-02T01:30:47Z")

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[QUOTE=Happy Wanderer]  
It just seems like Hotmail is getting more and more flaky. They seem to be messing around with Live a lot. It keeps acting wonky on my system. A simple message to another hotmail account just took 40 minutes to get there. A follow up with a small .xls attachment still hasn’t arrived after almost an hour. I am getting tired of this.  
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Oh, yeah, I did upgrade to the new Live thing, but did not like it, so took advangage of their link to get it back to the old (and better) version.

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**Author:** ![mshar253](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/6de8d8/32.png) [@mshar253](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mshar253)\
**Post date:** [April 2, 2008, 1:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-else-having-trouble-with-hotmail-today/443590/5 "2008-04-02T01:43:51Z")

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[QUOTE=Happy Wanderer]  
I send messages but they do not receive them in a timely fashion or at all.  
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I’m getting a message saying that my account is unavailable. Since my hotmail address is my primary e-mail, this is freaking brutal.