Tech Shout!

This week around, Mircrosoft’s Windows Live accounts, Hotmail e-mail and other Microsoft online services were facing some technical problem due to which these services were not responding for some time. On Tuesday, users trying to log-on to their Hotmail and Live accounts were facing the problem.

Such problems were reported in countries like the United States, Britain, Finland, the Netherlands, Honduras, France and the Czech Republic. Even few Asian countries like Japan has users facing problems while logging in.

However Microsoft has announced that the issue is being resolved. And users can log-on to their account and access their emails as before.

Microsoft did not elaborate on the issue that had occurred, but just briefly said that the issue has been fixed. In the statement Microsoft said, “We apologize for any inconvenience this particular issue has caused consumers.”

Hotmail is known for being the first ever free webmail service, launched in 1996. Later it was taken over by software giant Microsoft and the company claims to have nearly 280 million users on hotmail or live.