Microsoft: Outlook and Hotmail blackout is because of overheating server farm

Microsoft's email administrations, Outlook and Hotmail , and also SkyDrive (its cloud benefit) experienced an extensive downtime beginning Tuesday evening. The administration interference at last kept going over 16 hours, yet 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 as a result of a "quick and generous 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, initiating shields that hindered clients' entrance to Outlook, Hotmail , and SkyDrive. The shields went ahead sufficiently snappy to forestall harming the servers, however the blackout still endured that long in light of the fact tha...