I don't know how it happened, but I somehow missed the (preview) launch of Microsoft's new and improved email solution, Outlook.com. Not one to be left behind, I quickly scurried away to see what it was all about and initial impressions are rather pleasing; much nicer than the hotmail/live interface. In the interests of protecting my email username for the new outlook.com domain, I went to create an email alias (a snazzy feature for creating alternate addresses that route through to your existing inbox) and what happens?
"There's a temporary problem with the service. Please try again. If you continue to get this message, try again later."Huzzah!
I'm not really complaining though. There are always teething problems but I would like to get a couple of addresses tied up so that they won't be snapped by someone else. So for the time being I'm stuck a couple of metres behind the boat, but I can see it's a reasonably impressive looking boat. Time will tell as to whether or not it will stay afloat!
Edit: The aliasing finally worked some 5 hours later, so I suspect it was a temporary disabling/limiting of the system due to the high volume of requests.
