I have had problems with Hotmail the last couple of days (not today, thankfully) but the message I was getting when trying to send e-mail was that 'the server is busy'. !!! I was receiving mail, so I didn't understand. I rebooted puter and all was ok.

HOWEVER, it happened yesterday and I was unable to send OR receive (a friend was trying to send me something and told me they got the message saying server busy). Rebooting didn't help - waiting for a couple of hours DID help cos I seemed to clear itself, but NOT before I had deleted loads of stuff in case that was the problem.

Maybe they are having some 'general' problems or are updating their site at the moment?