Tuesday, January 4, 2011

Microsoft Blames Server Problem for Hotmail Outage

Microsoft says it has fixed a problem with its Windows Live Hotmail service that temporarily deleted the e-mail of more than 17,000 users.

The trouble began on Dec. 30 when the e-mail in 17,355 accounts disappeared. On Monday, a Microsoft executive wrote that the company had identified the technical glitch and restored e-mail to the affected accounts by Sunday night.

Microsoft uses its SQL Server to manage Hotmail in what it says is the largest deployment of its product in the world, using tens of thousands of SQL databases.
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