I tried longing in to my email adress just now and I was redirected to a page saying:



How to get to Hotmail
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Hotmail does not support the .NET Passport you are signed in to. Visit the Hotmail Web site for information or to set up a free account.

If this is the case and I can't login to my email, I'll have lost all of my important messages etc.

Has anyone else had this problem? <_<

Yeah, just keep trying to log in and eventually the stupid thing will work again. It takes a fair few tries to get it to work again though.

Don't use hotmail. Its the worst e-mail service in the world. After a certain number of days of inactivity, they suspend your account until you re-validate it, and in the meantime they delete all your messages. This really hurt me a while back when I won letter of the month from EGM, except there was a mixup with my address. To validate me they wanted me to send them a copy of the original, unedited letter, but I hand't logged into the hotmail account that I sent it from for so long that the same thing happened. PM me if you want and I'll pop you a gmail invite, or use linuxmail.org. Those two are the only two email services I have used in years, and I've never had a single gripe about either of them.

I think hotmail's okay, really. Shouldn't complain about free stuff :mellow:

i use multiple services for differnet things, but still use hotmail the most.

Doesn't really help, but I'd recommend moving away from yahoo/hotmail/etc to either a low-cost paid service, or gmail. Gmail has the best web interface I've seen for a free service (or paid for that matter) and has POP3 support so you can use Outlook/Thunderbird/whatever.

It's still invite only, but I'm sure everyone with an account has about 100 invitations they'd be willing to share (myself included).

i'd give out gmail invites to anyone who wants one

Personally I don't gmail's that great either. In fact, their privacy policy is kind of screwy.

google's privacy policy in general isn't that flash...

and neither is amazon's, but thats a different story

i use yahoo. no problems so far.

I use gmail. I have like 49 invites so if anybody wants one just ask okay? It's not like I have anybody else to give tham to anyway.