I am also never going to use Bing as my search engine because of this.

OH well... Nobody will listen... Thats the problem with corporate monsters

We're working on the issue, but at this point we're not sure what the problem is - hence my request for the Wireshark traces above. In order to fix the issue we need to collect the info that these traces will provide.

This is no publicity stunt at all - we want you to get to your mail just as much as you do.

Horrible. Absolutely horrible. If this is NOT a reason to go to ANY other OS & Search engine, then pray tell me, what is?

This problem is still happening to me. I cannot perform the Wireshark trace as I am working on a Mac.

Happening yet again. Once too often. I've wasted enough time on this and am now switching - permanently – to a Yahoo mail account. I will also be very reluctant to use or recommend Bing. You would think that after so many weeks of this happening a solution would have been found by now.

Ward12 - I'm sorry you're running into these problems, but we are trying to get them fixed. Unfortunately we're not exactly sure where the problem lies which is why we're requesting the trace information. If you're still interested in helping, you can get a trace using the following steps with a  terminal window:

1. Go to Applications
2. Open Terminal.app
3. Type in the following command "sudo tcpdump -s 0 -A -i en0 -w ~/Desktop/trace.dmp" (Make sure not to include the quotation marks)
4. You may be requested to enter your administrator password at this point  

Once you've done that, open your browser and try login to Hotmail. Once you've finished reproducing the issue you're having, we'll need to stop the trace using the following steps:

1.       Click back on the Terminal Window
2.       Press Control-C
3.       At this point the trace.dmp will be saved on your desktop. Just let us know and we'll let tell you how to send it in to us.

This has been happening far too long for support not to know what is going on. Why is it that Bing out of millions of websites on the internet is the only site that users are redirected to when Hotmail cannot communicate with user computers?

Why is it this issue has been occuring for months without being fixed? I cannot access my email right now, and for obvious reasons (several weeks without a resolution to this repetitive issue) I can't login to my email AGAIN. I have a gmail account, but sadly my inbox has never been locked so long that I would consider routing my messages there. Tonight has me considering otherwise.

This Bing.com 'error' is BS.

@ AMC1988,

We're still investigating the cause of the problem and we need your help in collecting the required data. If you're interested in helping us in investigating the issue, please visit:

http://windowslivehelp.com/solutions/servicemgt/archive/2009/09/24/redirected-to-bing-when-trying-to-navigate-to-windows-live-hotmail.aspx