Hello all,

This is regarding the issue that customers have been reporting about the broken search functionality in Hotmail with the error, “There was a problem with the Windows Live Hotmail service (a temporary network connectivity issue that has nothing to do with your computer). Please try again."

The Hotmail Development team has found the root cause to the issue and rolled out a fix to all servers to resolve the issue. This should resolve the issue for users who were previously experiencing it. If you are still experiencing it, please let us know by posting a new message so we can look into your issue in particular.

Thanks,
Roopa

Last update: 6/12/09 10:45AM PDT