hya lato... What a poor speculation; ;-) Your hotmail not opening does not mean hotmail server is down. It may be problem with your PC or in the transit. They do not have a single server to maintian all the accounts and have highly content distributed network and fault tolerance. So very unlikly their server is down. If it was down it would have been news like on May 2000. http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,36249,00.html