Did you do anything to correct it or did it just figure it out on it's own?

Success this morning!

I too had problems yesterday and again today, and suspect it's the result of the upcoming switch over to the new Outlook.com. I got an email announcing the preview over a month ago, and personally not a big fan of it, and also found it difficult to switch back to Hotmail. Nothing near what Outloook is; I am a big fan of Outlook! I sure hope they get the "bugs" fixed quickly as I am tired of the problems - I have both gmail and Hotmail accounts and really prefer the gmail experience. But, I like having both so I can fall back to the other when one is down or having problems, just like yesterday and today.