Microsoft: Mystery bug blocks Syrian secure Hotmail Microsoft is blaming a mystery bug for preventing access to the encrypted version of Hotmail, denying that it deliberately blocked access to the service in Syria. On Friday afternoon, the company told The Reg that Hotmail users who had already enabled the HTTPS version of the popular email service were still able to use it. …
then try to untangle the associated spaghetti code, find that nobody can figure out what it's supposed to do, try running it in a debugger but fail to replicate the situation, randomly switch options on and off in the hope of getting somewhere, wait for a third party developer to email them the fix ...
"set his Hotmail country to Egypt by default and that HTTPS had been prohibited. He then set his country to Israel and HTTPS by default was allowed."
That sounds very much like an internal MS policy to me. Why else would your MS-specific default country change https working or not, with the same IP address?
> "We do not intentionally limit support by region or geography and this issue was not restricted to
> any specific region of the world. We apologize for any inconvenience to our customers that this
> may have caused," a Microsoft spokesperson said.
Says the company that told me I was not eligible for a XBox Live account for my Malaysian Live account.
Stop talking rots MS. Between this and the fact that games on the 360 can be region-locked, we really know where you stand.
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