An Internet routing error by AT&T effectively shut off access from around 40 percent of the Internet to several major Microsoft Web sites and services on Thursday, Microsoft has said.
Access to Microsoft's Hotmail, Messenger, and Passport services as well as some other MSN services was cut for more than an hour after AT&T made routing changes on its backbone.
The problem is unrelated to an outage on Monday this week that left most of MSN Messenger's 75 million users unable to access the service for around five hours, said Sohn. "We had not started the work with AT&T on Monday."
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