Hotmail Users Report Blank Inboxes
Found on PC Mag on Saturday, 01 January 2011
According to multiple postings on Microsoft's official support forum for Windows Live, a number of users are reporting that their entire Hotmail accounts have been completely deleted without warning.
Users can still log in sans issue. However, they arrive at empty inboxes: No custom folders, no messages in "Sent" or "Deleted," nothing.
Users sign up with a free service and then wake up one day to find out that they lost data. Relying on the "cloud" is a wrong approach: never trust a single point and always store important data somewhere else. It's so simple to set up a standard email client to download messages while leaving them online. So if anything goes wrong, no problem, you have your local backup. Maybe that will be a lesson to some people.