<p>Microsoft's spanking new Outlook.com and creaking Hotmail service are experiencing prolonged outages around the world.</p><p>Hotmail and Outlook.com users are complaining they are either unable to access email or unable to see all their email messages.</p><p>The problem seems to have initially affected cloud storage service SkyDrive, too, but this issue seems now to be solved. It should also be noted that not all Hotmail and Outlook accounts are affected.</p><p>The online outage seems to have struck about 17 hours ago, based on the time stamps of Twitter users who've been complaining. Microsoft admitted a problem at 21:35 GMT last night on its service status page and this morning it said fixing the problem is taking "longer than expected."</p><p><a href="http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/03/13/hotmail_outlook_service_disruption/">Keep reading...</a></p>