Mac Forum / Applications / Other MS Products / May 2008

I am using Windows Explorer 6 with Windows XP Pro. On a fast, state of the
art, home desktop.

I pay $21.00 per month for a Microsoft dial up connection and an msn.com
e-mail account,  that over the past two months has become gradually unusable.

Nine times out of ten when I try to log on, I get one of these messages:

     Due to current high demand the page you are looking for cannot be
delivered right now.
     Please click refresh or try again later.
     HTTP Error 408/409

     The server timed out while waiting for the browser’s request.
      Reference #2.4f33287c.1210922173.0

Often, after I manage to sigh on and read my mail, when I try to send an
e-mail, I again get the same error messages, and loose my work.

This problem is unique to hotmail.com. Explorer 6 works almost instantly and
every time on all of the free mail services, Yahoo, QQ, and 163.com. And it
works fine every where else on the internet.

Question: when will Microsoft fix this problem? Short of changing providers,
what are other people doing as a work around?