Hotmail users find empty inboxes on new year

The new year evening saw many hotmail users missing their important mails from their inboxes. Infact many hotmail users, across the globe, reported that all

their important data went missing since the beginning of the new year. While Microsoft defined the problem as not so widespread and is working with impacted users to resolve it. Though, it did not give any technical explaination for this unpleasant situation.

Some Microsoft Hotmail users are starting off the New Year scrambling to get back old e-mails, the Daily Mail reported.

Many of its users shared the problem through various forums and popular social networking sites.

Launched in 1996, Hotmail is the most widely used email service in the world and boasts of around 360 million users. It was later acquired by Microsoft for

around $400 million.

"Got my emails and personal folders back , I know some of us will not trust Hotmail , but this is the case with any online services , and in some cases it's

very hard to change our emails because it's related to many things , so what I did , I just create gmail account and forward copy of my hotmail to it," commented a hotmail user.

New Delhi: The new year evening saw many hotmail users missing their important mails from their inboxes. Infact many hotmail users, across the globe, reported that all their important data went missing since the beginning of the new year. Microsoft defined the problem as not so widespread and said it is working with impacted users to resolve it. Though, it did not give any technical explaination for this unpleasant situation. Some Microsoft Hotmail users are starting off the New Year scrambling to get back old e-mails, the Daily Mail reported.

"Got my emails and personal folders back , I know some of us will not trust Hotmail , but this is the case with any online services , and in some cases it's very hard to change our emails because it's related to many things , so what I did , I just create gmail account and forward copy of my hotmail to it," commented a hotmail user.

Many of its users shared the problem through various forums and popular social networking sites.Launched in 1996, Hotmail is the most widely used email service in the world and boasts of around 360 million users. It was later acquired by Microsoft for around $400 million.