<p>Microsoft is not calling Tuesday's disruption to Hotmail and Outlook an outage, but the delays users are experiencing accessing email remain 12 hours after users first reported problems.</p><p>It's taking Microsoft "longer than hoped" to fix access problems with Hotmail and Outlook, with the service disruption which began Tuesday evening continuing through to Wednesday.</p><p>"We're having a problem accessing email. You might not be able to see all your messages," Microsoft notes on its status pages for Hotmail and Outlook for 12 March to 13 March.</p><p>Users took to Twitter to complain about being unable to open any emails on Tuesday, with the service returning a message selected could not be found and may have been moved or deleted.</p><p><a href="http://www.zdnet.com/hotmail-outlook-hit-by-extended-access-delays-messages-disappear-7000012524/">Keep reading...</a></p><p>Read also:</p><p><a href="http://techcrunch.com/2013/03/13/the-great-hotmail-outlook-outage-of-2013-continues-as-downtime-passes-12-hour/">The Great Hotmail, Outlook Outage Of 2013 Continues As Downtime Passes 12 ...</a> (TechCrunch)</p><p><a href="http://news.cnet.com/8301-10805_3-57573979-75/hotmail-outlook-skydrive-hit-by-service-disruptions/">Hotmail, Outlook, SkyDrive hit by service disruptions</a> (CNET)</p><p><a href="http://www.pcworld.com/article/2030702/microsoft-has-access-issues-with-hotmail-outlook-skydrive-services.html">Microsoft has access issues with Hotmail, Outlook, SkyDrive services</a> (PCWorld)</p><p>Explore: <a href="http://news.google.com/news/more?ncl=d3DaLXtsxHL2QZMsk1rOetxUIViAM&ned=us">22 additional articles.</a></p>