# Is Windows Live Mail Broke?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-windows-live-mail-broke/508614>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [September 2, 2009, 6:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-windows-live-mail-broke/508614 "2009-09-02T06:16:31Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![Oslo\_Ostragoth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/a9a28c/32.png) [@Oslo\_Ostragoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oslo_Ostragoth)\
**Post date:** [September 2, 2009, 6:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-windows-live-mail-broke/508614/1 "2009-09-02T06:16:31Z")

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I have a bunch of Hotmail accounts that I formerly accessed through Outlook Express with Windows 2000. We were advised that we would have to upgrade to XP and Live Mail to continue beyond Aug. 31.

So I did, and Live Mail worked fine up to yesterday. But I can’t even launch Live Mail today.

Does anyone know what is happening?

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**Author:** ![Reply](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/reply/32/15952_2.png) [@Reply](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Reply)\
**Post date:** [September 2, 2009, 6:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-windows-live-mail-broke/508614/2 "2009-09-02T18:24:58Z")

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Could it’ve been a temporary outage? Works fine for me now.

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**Author:** ![Oslo\_Ostragoth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/a9a28c/32.png) [@Oslo\_Ostragoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oslo_Ostragoth)\
**Post date:** [September 3, 2009, 4:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-windows-live-mail-broke/508614/3 "2009-09-03T04:39:47Z")

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Mine too. Must have been a one-time thing. [Huge Phewww!]