The technology giant Redmond, Washington-based said on Twitter, it is now "aware of the problem," but did not say what was the cause of the outage. In another tweet, it was noted that it was not clear how long it would take to restore services, but that "piracy is not suspected."
In many tweets sent by @ MicrosoftHelps, the company posted a link to the Microsoft page service condition. However, at the time of this writing, the site says that Outlook.com was still "functioning normally."
There was a note warning status page Connected Services may be affected, adding: ". Clients may not be able to add or modify their connections Twitter ... while trying to link their account Microsoft Twitter "It is not related to the state service Outlook.com, however.The Outlook.com problem occurs only three days after the software company has suffered embarrassing failure to service Windows Azure Storage, caused by a security certificate has expired.
Azure has been a total collapse in the world after the SSL (Secure Sockets Layer) certificate used to authenticate the service safely, ended Friday just after 12 pm PT, according to ZDNet's Mary Jo Foley.
HTTP whereas only users are not affected, many services incurred as a result of the expiry of certificate, including many other Microsoft cloud services, such as education and professional users of Office 365 . On Saturday morning, the outage has ended after a new certificate has been installed.
For a few tens of millions of users Outlook.com the downtime will be a shocking experience.
Outlook.com is the next generation of cloud email service from Microsoft that will eventually replace Hotmail. Sporting a new Metro style interface - such as Windows 8 - and a host of new features, the company said: "hundreds of millions" will use this summer.
