Microsoft: Outlook and Hotmail blackout is because of overheating server farm
Microsoft's email administrations, Outlook and Hotmail , and in addition SkyDrive (its cloud benefit) experienced a long downtime beginning Tuesday evening. The administration interference at last kept going over 16 hours, however the organization could reestablish the administrations prior for a few clients. While Microsoft at first didn't offer a clarification for the blackout, a post on the Outlook blog by Windows Services VP Arthur de Haan uncovered that it happened in view of a "fast and significant temperature spike" in a server farm that stores parts of those previously mentioned administrations. As indicated by Haan, Microsoft was refreshing firmware in the server farm – a standard procedure – when servers began overheating, actuating shields that obstructed clients' entrance to Outlook, Hotmail , and SkyDrive. The shields went ahead sufficiently snappy to anticipate harming the servers, yet the blackout still kept going that long on the grounds that ...