Windows Live Messenger Down
February 26th, 2008
People across the world have been reporting that Windows Live Messenger, Hotmail and Windows Live sign-on is down across the world. Web Messenger also seems to be down, although Live Search still works.
I get the following message:
We were unable to sign you into Windows Live Messenger at this time. Please try again later.”
Don’t worry, it’s not you… its Microsoft! It does make me wonder whether we put too much trust in Microsoft and one centralised IM server - maybe something decentralised like Jabber is a much better way forward, especially with critical and important IM.
Oddly enough, I found out about the downtime when I saw the traffic from my blog doubling in one page and a few hundred pageviews on one of my old blog posts about MSN Messenger Downtime.
In the mean time, it’s a fantastic time to catch up on work and those tax returns 
thanks man, any idea when it will be back up ?
Im so fed up of it being down…am having msn withdrawal symtoms lolz!!!
been down for a couple of days for me, i just restart it and sometimes it logs in
its really annoying though!