An outage occurred today that lasted for about an hour for Hotmail, Xbox Live, and Windows Live users.
The event happened due to the loss of a server according to Microsoft. The company has replaced the lost server within an hour.
The article at latimes.com notes that Twitter users were the first ones who noticed the outage when they tweeted about problems on accessing Windows Live services. Microsoft made a blog post on its Twitter page and said that it would “fully investigate the cause and will take steps to prevent this from happening again.”
Source: Los Angeles Times
