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Microsoft has made available for download a new flavor of its official Outlook.com application for Android-based devices, namely version 7.8.2.11.48.4848, now offering support for more devices than before.
The application, available for download from this page on Softpedia, can now be installed on Android 2.2 devic... |
24 May 2013
02:38 GMT |
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Microsoft has just released Google Talk support for Outlook.com, trying to attract even more Gmail users to its new flagship email platform.
The new webmail service has implemented Google’s APIs to work with Google Talk, but at this point, only text conversations are supported. No video or audio calls are poss... |
14 May 2013
09:06 GMT |
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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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Microsoft launched Skype video calling features for Outlook.com this A.M., but the company has also released a short video to show the new option in action. Currently available in the United Kingdom exclusively, the new audio and video calling options provided via Skype are possible thanks to a browser plugin that c... |
30 April 2013
03:46 GMT |
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Microsoft has just introduced Skype video calling features to Outlook.com, thus allowing users of its email service to call friends straight from their browsers. The integration is possible thanks to a browser plugin, currently available for Internet Explorer, Chrome and Firefox, with users being asked to connect Sk... |
30 April 2013
01:08 GMT |
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Outlook.com, the “reinvented” email platform belonging to the Redmond-based technology giant, has embraced a new ad format released by Microsoft that seems to be based on the Modern live tile design implemented into Windows 8.
Called versaTiles, the new advertising format is currently sold in Brazil in t... |
24 April 2013
13:41 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 launched two-factor authentication for Outlook.com this A.M., but the Redmond-based giant has also prepared several other improvements for its new email platform.
The company has introduced support for multiple aliases that allow you to use different email addresses with the same inbox.
“Aliases use... |
18 April 2013
12:51 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 recently rolled out a new version of the Outlook.com calendar, more than one month after the company finally pushed the email service out of beta.
The new calendar service “is faster than ever,” Microsoft said in a blog post, and “helps you focus on the events and appointments and tas... |
3 April 2013
03:35 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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While Windows 8’s uptake remains pretty low more than four months after launch, the Redmond-based technology giant continues to promote its operating system, this time with six tips on how to make the most of the newly released software.
It all comes down to the Microsoft account, the one that provides access to the... |
22 March 2013
02:27 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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Soon after Microsoft officially pushed Outlook.com out of beta, the company announced that it would start a new marketing blitz for its email service, very similar to the one used to advertise the Windows 8 operating system. So it’s no surprise that the Redmond-based technology giant rolled out a new Outlook.c... |
12 March 2013
09:38 GMT |
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There’s no doubt email services have evolved a lot lately and, while some remember Gmail as the first platform offering users unlimited inbox storage, Microsoft’s Outlook.com has become the top choice when it comes to sending large files via email.
As you probably know by now, Outlook.com also offers unl... |
12 March 2013
05:35 GMT |
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Microsoft continues its usual advertising business with a new Outlook.com ad, the email service that was recently pushed out of beta to take on Google’s very own Gmail.
While the Redmond-based technology giant says that Outlook.com beats Gmail in many regards, its new email platform also serves as the quickest... |
12 March 2013
03:56 GMT |
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Microsoft rolled out a new Outlook.com advertisement this A.M. and, aside from the fact that the company is thus continuing its marketing blitz for the email platform, it also revealed some of the upcoming features of the service.
The Redmond-based technology giant is now working to integrate Skype into Outlook.com,... |
7 March 2013
14:51 GMT |
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Microsoft officially rolled out the final version of Outlook.com a couple of weeks ago, and the company promised to release a new marketing blitz specifically aimed at its email platform.
Today, the company unveiled a brand new advertisement that brings Outlook.com’s social features in the spotlight, as Micros... |
7 March 2013
01:29 GMT |
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Chances are that you’ve already heard about Microsoft’s final version of Outlook.com that got to see daylight a few days ago, so you’re probably already familiar with the company’s attempts to make its email platform the number one on the web.
Well, the Redmondians have tried to make the most... |
28 February 2013
02:24 GMT |
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Microsoft’s newly-released Outlook.com email service suffered an outage yesterday that restricted access to users living in specific countries, making sending and receiving messages impossible.
While Microsoft’s service status page did not indicate any downtime, the company acknowledged the issue and sta... |
26 February 2013
01:22 GMT |
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Microsoft’s Outlook.com email platform is currently down for some users across the world, only days after the company officially released the final version of the service.According to users who posted on the company’s support forums, they’re all provided by with a “service unavailable” e... |
25 February 2013
08:22 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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Outlook.com is no longer a beta service, so Microsoft can go on with its marketing efforts supposed to let everyone know that its email platform is available to all users worldwide.
The company has recently published a clip to provide an in-depth look of the inbox of an Outlook.com account, bringing some of the main... |
21 February 2013
02:50 GMT |
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Microsoft recently pushed Outlook.com out of beta and started a brand new marketing blitz supposed to help promote the email service basically all over the world.
Today, the company published a detailed graph showing the features of all three major email services available on the Internet at this point, namely Outlo... |
21 February 2013
01:27 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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Microsoft announced yesterday that Outlook.com is no longer a beta service, so all users across the globe can register for an account at absolutely no cost.
Well, it appears that the company’s marketing efforts are quickly paying off, as Microsoft has managed to set a new record, with more than 1.5 million new... |
20 February 2013
01:11 GMT |
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Microsoft today pushed Outlook.com out of beta, but together with the final version of the service, the company also released a global advertising campaign supposed to show everybody the benefits of switching to this particular email service.
The company has just rolled out one more advertisement for the new Outlook... |
19 February 2013
18:01 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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Microsoft has recently announced that its own Outlook.com email service was no longer a beta product, so all consumers across the globe can register for an account right now.
In addition, the company also rolled out the first commercial for the product, trying to let everyone know that Outlook.com is one of the best... |
19 February 2013
02:55 GMT |
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Microsoft has just announced that its very own Outlook.com email service is coming out of preview and is now available for people all over the world.
What’s more, the service has no less than 60 million users, according to Microsoft’s very own statistics, confirming that a lot of consumers are actually s... |
19 February 2013
01:55 GMT |
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Microsoft’s anti-Google campaign continues with the revamped “Scroogled” campaign aimed at Gmail, the email service that allegedly violates users’ privacy by looking into their emails to display relevant ads.
As we’ve already told you, the Redmond-based technology giant also launched a ... |
11 February 2013
07:52 GMT |
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Microsoft is once again attacking its Mountain View-based rival Google, this time over some “unfair” practices that it uses on the Gmail email service. As you probably know by now, Gmail is the biggest rival for Microsoft’s reinvented Outlook.com, so the company is trying every once in a while to s... |
7 February 2013
02:16 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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Google’s decision to end support for Exchange ActiveSync (EAS) has shocked pretty much everyone, but Microsoft clearly sees this as an opportunity to bring more users to its very own Outlook.com.
The Mountain View-based search giant has announced that adding new devices for the Exchange Active Sync protocol wo... |
18 December 2012
01:19 GMT |
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Microsoft has released two new security features for its browser-based email service Outlook.com, as the number of registered users continues to grow on a daily basis.
The new support for DMARC (Domain-based Message Authentication, Reporting & Conformance) and for EV (Extended Validation) Certificates is supposed to... |
11 December 2012
03:38 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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Microsoft’s new Outlook.com email service has reached the 1 million-user milestone in India, as the Redmond-based technology company continues its duel with Google’s very own Gmail.
According to Microsoft’s data, the service currently has 25 million users globally, with a significant growth recorde... |
5 December 2012
13:21 GMT |
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Redmond-based technology company Microsoft has started rolling out Outlook.com service updates, including an archive option and new color themes.
These new features are currently available to a limited number of users, as Microsoft is now sending them to Outlook.com consumers from all over the world, but should be t... |
5 December 2012
10:29 GMT |
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Microsoft officially launched the new Outlook.com in July and, according to its very own data, more and more users are making the switch to the updated email service.
Gmail remains one of the fiercest rivals for Outlook.com, but Microsoft claims that Google’s registered users are actually preferring its very o... |
28 November 2012
03:18 GMT |
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Outlook.com may be a good-looking email service, but several users have already expressed their frustration when it comes to several built-in utilities.
The last issue we discovered concerns the sign-in page that seems to be broken when loaded in Mozilla Firefox and Google Chrome. There's a “404 – F... |
19 September 2012
05:57 GMT |
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Microsoft has been working on making its latest operating systems more connected than before, and one new feature discovered in Windows Phone 8 confirms that.
Apparently, users will be able to easily sync their SMS and MMS messages to Hotmail or Outlook.com, so as to be able to access them from more places.
In ad... |
5 September 2012
03:37 GMT |
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