Microsoft said late Thursday that problems with its .NET Passport servers briefly locked some subscribers out of their online accounts. “Some users have been experiencing some intermittent problems with sign-in,” said Adam Sohn, a Microsoft spokesman. “It was a networking issue with a small subset of accounts.”
Sohn said the company detected problems with the .NET Passport servers around 3:30 p.m. PST and the company's technical team had it under control about three hours later. “We think we've fixed it, and we're continuing to monitor the situation,” he said.
The outage affected some customers who attempted to sign on to a personalized service linked to Passport, Microsoft's central gateway that millions of consumers use to access multiple Web sites or services. For example, Microsoft customers use Passport to access the Web-based e-mail service Hotmail, MSN Messenger, MSN 8.0 and so-called wallet services connected to third-party shopping sites.
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