Account Alert Email – real or phishing?

I've received 4 emails this morning with the title *Account Alert! ID:nnn*[22 June,2012]

With the following content:

This e-mail has been sent to you by Hotmail inform you that we were unable to verify your account details. This might be due to either of the following reasons:

1. A recent change in your personal information. (eg:  address, phone)
2. Submitting incorrect information during register process.
                                
Due to this, to ensure that your email service is not interrupted, we request you to confirm and update your information today by following the link below

  
If you have already confirmed your  information then please  disregard this message.
  
Regards,
Hotmail member services

Thanks for your cooperation.

It looks like a phishing scam to me but I would be grateful if you could verify?

Many thanks