[freehunter]

That's one thing I've noticed about Microsoft services: they're always down. Outlook.com was down for several days as I was trying to merge my GMail to Outlook. Xbox.com is seemingly always slow and frequently gives me page not found errors. The marketplace and Xbox Music Pass are down a lot more often than they should be. Technet is a nightmare.

Why does it seem like Microsoft has such a hard time keeping their servers running? Then the next question that comes to mind is why do they still have cloud customers? I mean, I'm one of them; I use Xbox Music Pass and Technet and Xbox Live and Outlook.com but I can't answer the question as to why. Why do people put up with it?

[nivla]

>Outlook.com was down for several days

When did that happen? Any source?

[freehunter]

Looking it up post mortem it doesn't appear that it was several days, but it sure felt like it at the time. It was over 12 hours. There were significant outages on March 12th-13th [1], Feb 25th [2], and Feb 1st [3].

[1] http://www.businessinsider.com/microsoft-forced-to-apologize...

[2] http://www.neowin.net/news/microsoft-outlookcom-down-for-som...

[3] http://gigaom.com/2013/02/01/microsoft-office-365-hits-potho...

[nivla]

Thank you for providing the sources. Looks like you were right (except the few days part). It only affect a subset of users which explains why it went unnoticed for me. May have been related to the transition of Hotmail accounts but regardless if it keeps happening on a regular basis, I may have to find another provider.

[thaiphan]

He probably lives in a country where the internet is unreliable.

[freehunter]

Nope, I live in the United States with a pretty reliable connection. There is documented evidence of these outages which I posted in reply.