Microsoft quite often upgrades their services with new functions and has to take certain things offline. It should only be gone for one hour or less at a time. They usually don't take everything offline. Usually they take one region of the world offline at a time when upgrading and servicing things.
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<img align="right" src="http://webpages.charter.net/jazzjackrabbit/sig/El-ahrairah.PNG" height="200"><table bgcolor="navy"><td><font face="Trebuchet MS" size="3" color="blue"><i>"El-ahrairah, your people cannot rule the world, for I will not have it so. All the world will be your enemy, Prince with a Thousand Enemies, and whenever they catch you, they will kill you. But first they must catch you, digger, listener, runner, prince with the swift warning. Be cunning and full of tricks and your people shall never be destroyed."</i>
- The Blessing of El-ahrairah, Watership Down
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