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Microsoft killed Hotmail a few hours ago, as it completed the transition to Outlook.com, its new email platform that’s expected to provide at least the same features as its predecessor and so much more.
Even though Hotmail users have already expressed their frustration towards this email platform’s retir... |
3 May 2013
10:16 GMT |
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Tech giant Microsoft officially retired Hotmail a few hours ago, as it managed to complete a gigantic email transition that involved migrating 150 petabytes of data in just 6 weeks. And still, it’s worth it, as Outlook.com currently has 400 million active accounts, according to a statement released by Microsof... |
3 May 2013
01:07 GMT |
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Microsoft has just announced that it finally completed the email transition to Outlook.com, which means that the old yet extremely popular Hotmail has been officially retired.
The tech giant says that moving 300 million active accounts to Outlook.com was a real challenge, as the company had to preserve more than 150... |
2 May 2013
13:00 GMT |
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Outlook.com has become Microsoft’s number one email platform after Hotmail’s retirement, so the tech giant uses every single occasion to bring some of its features in the spotlight.
This time, Microsoft published an Outlook.com video ad to celebrate the 10th anniversary of Discovery Channel’s MythB... |
23 April 2013
15:11 GMT |
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Microsoft continues the Hotmail shutdown, as it plans to move all users to the Outlook.com platform by summer but, at the same time, it also releases new improvements for its number one email service.
The tech giant has just announced the availability of 32 new Outlook email address domains to easily access your inb... |
18 April 2013
01:51 GMT |
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Microsoft has developed plenty of Metro apps for its new Windows 8 operating system, some of which are installed by default in the platform that went live on October 26.
While the company hasn’t created an Outlook.com or Hotmail Modern app to allow users to access their inboxes with just a few taps, fans aroun... |
1 April 2013
19:01 GMT |
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Microsoft continues to improve Bing, even though statistics demonstrate that Google remains the number one search engine on the web.
The company has introduced a time sorting option for the results page, thus allowing users to see only the links published in the past 24 hours, week or month.
“Behind the scene... |
28 March 2013
17:11 GMT |
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It’s a well-known fact that Microsoft is now working to move all users from Hotmail to Outlook.com, but it seems like the transition is now almost completed. The company has finally removed the Hotmail link from the official Bing search engine page, replacing it with a link to Outlook.com, Microsoft’s ke... |
28 March 2013
06:41 GMT |
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Both Hotmail and Outlook.com email services are vulnerable to session fixation attacks that could allow cybercriminals to get full control of an account due to what seems to be an issue affecting the management of cookies and sessions.
Security guru Rishi Narang wrote on his blog that Microsoft’s emails platfo... |
22 March 2013
05:46 GMT |
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Microsoft will shut down Hotmail by summer and move all users to Outlook.com, the company’s new email platform that’s playing a key role for the long-term strategy of the Redmond-based giant. Even though Microsoft uses Outlook.com as its number one weapon in the Scroogled anti-Google campaign, some consu... |
15 March 2013
15:31 GMT |
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Hotmail and Outlook.com have been affected by a major outage that blocked users from accessing their accounts in many countries around the world for approximately 16 hours. It appears that the problem was caused by datacenter overheating that triggered the servers’ safeguards to come into place and disconnect ... |
14 March 2013
04:30 GMT |
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Microsoft’s very own email platform Outlook.com is currently down and cannot be accessed for the time being, while Hotmail is also experiencing service disruptions.Microsoft’s service status page confirms the issue for both Hotmail and Outlook.com, but it doesn’t provide any details regarding the re... |
13 March 2013
02:08 GMT |
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Microsoft pushed Outlook.com out of beta a few days ago, but the company also announced that all Hotmail users would be transferred to the new email platform by summer.
The transition has already started and, unsurprisingly, plenty of Hotmail users are outraged by Microsoft’s decision to completely retire the ... |
22 February 2013
04:26 GMT |
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There are many ways to get an ad-free email account these days, but in case ad blockers aren’t exactly your cup of tea, here’s a special Microsoft offer for Outlook and Hotmail. GHacks.net writes that those who pay for an annual $19.99 (€14.85) subscription will get a cleaner Hotmail and Outlook acc... |
20 February 2013
15:31 GMT |
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Now that Outlook.com is out of preview and is available to all users around the world, the company is getting ready to completely retire Hotmail, one of the most popular email services ever released.
The company announced the decision in a blog post, revealing that it expects all Hotmail users to make the switch to ... |
19 February 2013
09:46 GMT |
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The Mega file sharing service is growing bigger at an amazingly fast pace, but according to owner Kim Dotcom, some Microsoft users cannot register for a new account. Dotcom mentioned in a short tweet that some of those using Hotmail do not receive Mega confirmation emails, while Gmail addresses seem to work just fin... |
27 January 2013
07:14 GMT |
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A bug in Outlook.com removed all emails belonging to hundreds of Hotmail users who attempted to migrate to Microsoft’s new email service in the last couple of months, so the company has finally decided to investigate the issue.
Even though the issue was first reported in October and Microsoft previously said t... |
19 January 2013
12:21 GMT |
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Microsoft continues to encourage users to move from Hotmail to Outlook.com, the company’s revamped email service, but users are complaining that all their emails are completely gone once the transition is completed.
Neowin.net writes that users first reported the bug in October on Microsoft’s support for... |
18 January 2013
07:05 GMT |
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Microsoft continues to encourage Hotmail users to make the switch to Outlook.com, but several users have reported issues when trying to sign into their accounts. Monitoring service DownRightNow has also reported problems with Hotmail today, even though the Redmond-based technology giant is yet to confirm it. The co... |
4 January 2013
18:11 GMT |
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Outlook.com has been officially released earlier this year but, starting next week, Microsoft will begin to encourage existing Hotmail users to make the move to its revamped email service.
The move will still be optional for now, but the Redmond-based technology company could make it mandatory on the long term, as O... |
7 December 2012
10:16 GMT |
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After exactly five months of work, Skype is happy to announce today, November 15, that Skype 4.1 for Linux operating systems has been released and it is now available for download.
As we can see from its official website, Skype 4.1 for Linux brings two new features: easier conversations and the ability to talk to y... |
15 November 2012
03:42 GMT |
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Hotmail is such an effective spam blocking email service (or at least that’s what Microsoft claims) that the Redmond-based technology company has decided to hold a special event just for spammers.
The idea is brilliantly simple: since Hotmail is pretty effective when it comes to blocking spam messaging landing... |
6 November 2012
03:43 GMT |
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The battle for email may seem unfashionable, but webmail clients still attract huge number of users. The three big providers, Google, Yahoo and Microsoft, are battling it out and have been doing so for years. Google is the upstart, if you can call it that, and though it's taken almost a decade, Gmail is slowly... |
1 November 2012
06:50 GMT |
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Users of Microsoft’s Hotmail service in various countries might experience certain difficulties when it comes to accessing their accounts today, September 25th. Many are reporting issues with the Hotmail login process, noting that they are continuously redirected to the sign-in page, even if they have entered ... |
25 September 2012
10:36 GMT |
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Last week, Microsoft made official a new version of its personal email service, called Outlook.com and representing an upgrade from Live.com, Hotmail.com and MSN.com.
With the new release, Microsoft provides users not only with the possibility to take advantage of increased performance and security, but also with a ... |
10 August 2012
10:05 GMT |
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On Tuesday, Microsoft announced a major revamp of its email service, with the Metro UI being brought to Hotmail / Live users, and with a name change to Outlook.com.
Existing Hotmail users can easily switch to the new Outlook.com from the settings pane in their email accounts, while others are also welcomed to the s... |
1 August 2012
05:23 GMT |
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While preparing for the upcoming availability of Windows 8 and Windows Phone 8, Microsoft has made changes to yet another product to bring it in line with the Metro interface on these platforms, namely Hotmail.
Today, Microsoft’s online service can be upgraded to Outlook.com with a single click, providing user... |
1 August 2012
03:32 GMT |
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This week, Microsoft made available for download a new flavor of their Outlook Hotmail Connector, which comes both in 32-bit and 64-bit variants. Released as version 14.0.6123.5001, the Outlook Hotmail Connector provides users with the possibility to access and manage their Microsoft Windows Live Hotmail or Microso... |
5 July 2012
10:10 GMT |
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Chrome may be growing like crazy, Google has confirmed that, according to its own data, it's now the biggest browser out there. Yet other, more venerable, Google products aren't doing so bad either. Gmail for example, the first big venture out of the search space for Google, has some 425 million users. ... |
29 June 2012
15:31 GMT |
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Microsoft has been long rumored to plan bringing the Metro user interface to more of its products, and some more info on the changes that Hotmail would suffer as part of this process hasjust emerged.
We already had the chance to have a look at some of the modifications that Microsoft was planning for the service to... |
9 June 2012
06:36 GMT |
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Hotmail customers are advised to be on the lookout for emails entitled “E-mail account alert!” which notify them that their accounts have been blocked. These messages hide a link which points to a malicious website that urges the potential victim to provide his login credentials. Here’s part of the... |
14 May 2012
05:53 GMT |
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Microsoft’s operating systems have been redesigned to fit the need for always-connected devices and services, and the same is planned for the company’s Windows Live offering. The service, announced back in 2005, was meant to provide users with the software and services that would interest them most, and... |
3 May 2012
08:58 GMT |
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The famous Pakistani singer Zaain Ul Abeedin recently found that his Facebook page was taken over by a cybercriminal. Authorities failed to help the celebrity so he turned to ethical hacker Himanshu Sharma, who in less than 24 hours managed to recover the account. This is not the first time when a celebrity’s ... |
1 May 2012
03:45 GMT |
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Security researchers from the Vulnerability Lab identified a critical password reset and setup flaw in Microsoft’s Hotmail service. As it turns out, cybercriminals also found the same weakness and quickly saw a big profit in it, but thanks to experts from the Lab and Microsoft's Security Response Center a ... |
26 April 2012
06:11 GMT |
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In fall last year, Microsoft announced a series of new features and tools aimed at reducing the amount of graymail that Hotmail users have to fight against every day.
Things have advanced greatly in the meantime, and Hotmail users report that they managed to conquer graymail over 100 million times through features... |
22 February 2012
05:32 GMT |
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Microsoft’s Hotmail service is currently down and users cannot sign in into their accounts at the moment. However, Microsoft notes that they are aware of the issue, and that they are working on finding a solution for the outage. “We're aware of sign-in issues - we're investigating and worki... |
15 February 2012
02:49 GMT |
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Microsoft’s Hotmail webmail service is more effective when it comes to blocking spam than rival leading similar services, a recent study has shown. In the past years, Microsoft has been hard at work with upgrading Hotmail so that it would filter spam better than before. Spam that makes it to the inbox has de... |
14 February 2012
08:08 GMT |
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The official Hotmail application for Amazon’s Kindle Fire is now available for download via retailer’s web store, offering fast and easy access to Microsoft’s service.
Microsoft has been focused on making Hotmail work great not only on Windows devices, but also on those that run under other platf... |
25 January 2012
04:15 GMT |
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Recently, Microsoft announced that there was a new Hotmail available for its users to enjoy, packing great, appealing features.
One of these is the Microsoft SmartScreen, included into the mix in an attempt to make the sorting of newsletters an easier task.
“Since newsletters account for more than a quarte... |
16 January 2012
16:51 GMT |
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During the holidays, when people tend to travel more, you can expect an email from one of your friends who desperately needs your help after he's been mugged and left without a dime. In many situations, this means that the friend’s email has been compromised and the hackers are relying on it to send their ... |
23 December 2011
04:19 GMT |
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Hotmail has got a series of cosmetic changes lately, and users all around the world can now benefit from them.
There are several new features that Microsoft’s customers can enjoy with this release, which means more reasons for users to love Hotmail.
The Redmond-based company is aware of this, and has just p... |
19 December 2011
13:01 GMT |
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With a number of more than 150 million active users at the moment, Microsoft Outlook is said to be the most popular email software in the world, which would make it fit to be coupled with another world's largest, namely with Hotmail, currently enjoying more than 350 million active users.
Microsoft has been har... |
17 November 2011
10:34 GMT |
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Microsoft is in the process of rolling out a collection of new features to Windows Live Hotmail, making it easier for users to manage Newsletters, Deals, and other notifications.
The company already delivered insight into the upgrade, more than a month ago, at the start of October, but Dick Craddock - group program... |
9 November 2011
12:01 GMT |
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Microsoft has warned customers using its web properties, including services associated with Windows Live such as Hotmail, of a new phishing attack designed to steal their sensitive data.
The scam involves a social engineering technique in order to trick users into handing over their account information.
The unsol... |
2 November 2011
09:51 GMT |
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Windows Phone 7.5 Mango, the latest flavor of Microsoft's mobile platform, is currently arriving on devices with a nice range of features packed inside, one of which is meant to change the way users interact with their email accounts.
In Mango, Hotmail has been built-in, so that users will stay on top of new... |
10 October 2011
14:41 GMT |
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Windows Phone Mango, the latest mobile operating system flavor from Redmond-based software giant Microsoft, has started to roll-out to devices last week, and already arrived on shelves on new mobile phones.
When compared to the previously available version of the operating system, Mango has a wide range of new fe... |
7 October 2011
03:59 GMT |
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Five new Windows Live Hotmail tools are currently rolling out to users worldwide, a process that will last a few weeks, and power users are bound to be happy with the enhancements.
It’s all about increasing the level of control that customers have over their inbox, to summarize the focus of Hotmail’s... |
4 October 2011
06:35 GMT |
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Microsoft has just made available for download in the Android Market its official Hotmail application for devices powered by Google's mobile operating system.
With the new mobile software, users can easily access their email while on the go, while receiving notification on each of the new messages they receiv... |
4 October 2011
01:44 GMT |
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Microsoft is in the process of migrating hundreds of millions of Windows Live Hotmail users and their accounts to a new storage system delivering better performance, enhanced reliability, superior disaster recovery capabilities and more scalability than before.
Kristof Roomp, an architect in the Hotmail team exp... |
23 September 2011
09:41 GMT |
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On September 8th, 2011, a few Windows Live services, including Hotmail and SkyDrive suffered an outage caused by a Domain Name Service (DNS) issue, according to Arthur de Haan, vice president, Windows Live Test and Service Engineering.
Microsoft became aware of the problem at approximately 8:00 PM PDT and started... |
21 September 2011
05:35 GMT |
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