The good news is that Microsoft’s Windows Live team is already aware of the issue and is looking into a fix as you read this, though there isn’t any indication of how many inboxes were affected or if the missing messages and contacts can be recovered. If recovery isn’t an option, you can bet that many users who were flirting with the idea of moving to Gmail/Yahoo Mail might just do that.
Jan 5, 2011
Hotmail users’ emails disappear over New Year
This probably isn’t the scenario that many Hotmail users wanted to wake up to in 2011, but reports are in that many Hotmail users have discovered that their emails have disappeared from their accounts, while some more severe cases include entire Hotmail accounts being deleted without any prior warning.
The good news is that Microsoft’s Windows Live team is already aware of the issue and is looking into a fix as you read this, though there isn’t any indication of how many inboxes were affected or if the missing messages and contacts can be recovered. If recovery isn’t an option, you can bet that many users who were flirting with the idea of moving to Gmail/Yahoo Mail might just do that.
The good news is that Microsoft’s Windows Live team is already aware of the issue and is looking into a fix as you read this, though there isn’t any indication of how many inboxes were affected or if the missing messages and contacts can be recovered. If recovery isn’t an option, you can bet that many users who were flirting with the idea of moving to Gmail/Yahoo Mail might just do that.
Source: ubergizmo
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