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Spam continues to plague email inboxes everywhere, but nowhere is the true size of this epidemic more visible than in the statistics provided by companies such as Microsoft, which operates Windows Live Hotmail. Fact is that unwanted messages surpass genuine emails by over 2 to 1, according to the Redmond company, and... |
9 April 2010
05:31 GMT |
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Redesign is always an integral part of building a new generation of products for Microsoft. And while for some offerings the revamping stops at the graphical user interface, for others it also impacts the logo and associated brand identity. The Windows Live Hotmail overhaul, as the service evolves to Wave 4, is likel... |
8 April 2010
09:09 GMT |
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A new Microsoft marketing campaign is promoting Windows Live Hotmail under the tagline “The New Busy.” The Redmond company has so far failed to announce the campaign officially, or to offer any details to the public, however, even a new website has been quietly rolled out. Hotmail – tools for the ne... |
23 March 2010
08:45 GMT |
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Microsoft has warned customers of its free email service of a new wave of hijacks that is targeting Windows Live Hotmail accounts. According to the Redmond company, attackers use hacked Hotmail accounts in order to send spam to all the people in the victims’ contact list. Rob Margel, working in Windows Services... |
12 March 2010
12:21 GMT |
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In mid-December 2008, when it initially introduced the Windows Live Solution Center, Microsoft promised that it would diversify the support offerings available via the website in the future. Over two years later, the Redmond company is no longer limiting the support destination to Windows Live Hotmail problems exclus... |
10 March 2010
07:31 GMT |
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Global leader in push-enabled mobile email and messaging solutions for mass market devices Seven announced today that it had joined the Microsoft Windows Live Hotmail for Mobile Services Reseller Program. According to the company, the agreement it signed with Microsoft will enable it to resell Windows Live Hotmail s... |
1 March 2010
09:59 GMT |
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The active users out of the 350 million people with Windows Live Hotmail accounts, along with spammers, send an average of 8 billion emails per day, Microsoft revealed. In fact, the vast majority of messages that are headed to Windows Live Hotmail accounts are in fact spam. According to Dick Craddock, Group Program M... |
21 January 2010
10:23 GMT |
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Microsoft is currently offering ever-growing storage via Windows Live Hotmail, and there are some users that have been little hesitant about taking advantage of the company’s offering. Case in point: Ryan from Dallas, TX, who’s Windows Live Hotmail uses no less than 23GB of e-mail storage, of course free ... |
12 January 2010
10:27 GMT |
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While it has long preached the superiority of Windows-based servers over those running rival platforms such as UNIX and Linux, Microsoft only moved its email service to an infrastructure running Windows Server some six years ago. It was only in 2004 that the Redmond company swapped UNIX for Windows Server, when the e... |
6 January 2010
09:49 GMT |
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No less than 4 billion emails are handled by Windows Live Hotmail every day, revealed Arthur de Haan, director, Windows Live Test and System Engineering. Out of the total number of messages that make through the Redmond company’s email service, only 3 billion are genuine. In this regard, Microsoft also filters ... |
23 December 2009
06:54 GMT |
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Following in the footsteps of the Windows 7 project, Microsoft has introduced a new blog for the company’s efforts around Windows Live. And just as the blog for Windows Vista’s successor introduced by Steven Sinofsky, president, Windows and Windows Live Division, Inside Windows Live will also be focused o... |
16 December 2009
09:30 GMT |
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Windows Live Hotmail is no longer amputated as of October 15th, 2009. The Redmond company has revealed that, following the development and implementation of a fix for a security issue related to the image attaching capabilities of its email service, it has restored full functionality to Windows Live Hotmail. In this ... |
16 October 2009
08:54 GMT |
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Microsoft has confirmed an issue with its email service that prevented users from accessing their accounts under normal conditions. On October 8th, 2009, the Redmond company was hard at work to identify the source of a Windows Live Hotmail blackout, and to provide a resolve to end users, ensuring that their accounts ... |
9 October 2009
03:49 GMT |
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As a direct result of a phishing scheme, the credentials for approximately 20,000 Windows Live Hotmail accounts have been leaked in the wild, and published on the Pastebin website. The leak was made public at the start of this week, and confirmed officially by Microsoft. This means that approximately 20,000 Windows L... |
7 October 2009
10:20 GMT |
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Microsoft has confirmed officially that sensitive data for several thousand Windows Live Hotmail accounts has been leaked in the wild. The details, including the passwords and usernames necessary to access the Hotmail accounts, were published on Pastebin. Microsoft has asked the website to remove the data as it was i... |
6 October 2009
03:35 GMT |
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Microsoft has confirmed officially that it is rolling out the first development milestone of Windows Live Hotmail Wave 4. Of course that the Redmond company is shy of using the Wave 4 reference. Instead, a member of the Windows Live Hotmail team referred to “improvements in current Hotmail features,” whil... |
17 September 2009
10:41 GMT |
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Users might not even have noticed anything different, as they were getting a taste of the evolution of Windows Live Hotmail. According to Microsoft, the first development milestone of Windows Live Hotmail Wave 4 was introduced on August 31st, 2009. The Redmond-based company made a point of keeping the release of Wind... |
15 September 2009
03:24 GMT |
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On September 1, 2009, Microsoft killed off a legacy protocol that allowed customers to bridge their email clients with the company’s online email service. As noted last in the second half of August 2009, the Redmond-based company was right on track to retiring Distributed Authoring and Versioning (DAV) at the s... |
2 September 2009
11:07 GMT |
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Come September 1st, 2009, Microsoft will finally kill off a legacy communications protocol that has long bridged the company’s online email service and its email clients for both Windows and Mac OS. At the start of next month, the Redmond company will retire the Distributed Authoring and Versioning (DAV) for Ou... |
24 August 2009
11:08 GMT |
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Microsoft is confirming officially what some users of Windows Live Hotmail Wave 3 have already undoubtedly noticed. The service no longer offers them the option to insert an image into the body of a message. The Redmond company explains that it has disabled the feature due to security concerns. According to the softw... |
21 August 2009
09:36 GMT |
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Quick add is a new feature introduced to Microsoft's online email service at the intersection between Windows Live Hotmail and Bing. Just as is the case with the evolution of the search engine from Live Search, quick add is designed to simplify workflow and cut down the clutter. Essentially, the feature enables ... |
10 July 2009
07:40 GMT |
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Keep your Hotmail accounts close, and your rival email accounts even closer must be the new mantra over at Microsoft. The Redmond company has announced that a new feature introduced to its email service under the Windows Live brand allows users to receive all their email in a single place no mater the service provide... |
1 July 2009
09:11 GMT |
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Microsoft is killing its old web-based instant messaging client under the MSN umbrella in favor of the Cloud version of Windows Live Messenger. According to the Redmond company, the last day of June will be synonymous with the death of MSN Web Messenger. For the software giant the move is nothing short of smart house... |
29 June 2009
02:57 GMT |
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Come September 1st, 2009, Microsoft will kill the Distributed Authoring and Versioning protocol for Windows Live Hotmail. In just three months, users running Outlook, Outlook Express, or Entourage in order to grab their emails from Hotmail via DAV will no longer be able to access their messages. Microsoft explained t... |
3 June 2009
03:51 GMT |
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In a move designed to steal audience from its rivals on the online email market, Google has started rolling out a new feature for Gmail that will permit users to import emails and contacts from third-party competitor services. Convincing an email user to switch providers is no easy task, and Google is well aware of t... |
15 May 2009
05:04 GMT |
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The evolution of Microsoft's email service continues well after the introduction of Windows Live Hotmail Wave 3. In this regard, the Redmond company is in the process of introducing new capabilities to Hotmail, making the service play nice with third-party email accounts. According to Arnout Hemel, product manag... |
6 May 2009
11:40 GMT |
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At just a little over one month since Windows Live Messenger went live, Microsoft has introduced the first refresh to the solution. Performance improvements were among the changes delivered by the refresh, the Redmond company confirmed. Users will be able to notice that examples of the integration of Windows Live Mes... |
30 April 2009
07:13 GMT |
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Microsoft has lived up to its promise to bring instant messaging functionality to its online email service. In this regard, the Redmond company started rolling out Web IM for Windows Live Hotmail at the start of the week in selected markets around the world. The software giant promised that all Hotmail users would en... |
22 April 2009
04:21 GMT |
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Microsoft is moving ahead with the evolution of Windows Live Wave 3, and in this regard it has introduced instant messaging functionality to its online email service. As of the start of this week, Windows Live Hotmail users will be able to IM with their friends via Windows Live Messenger, right from their email accou... |
21 April 2009
06:41 GMT |
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Microsoft has confirmed officially that Windows Live Hotmail suffered a temporary outage, but indicated that the issue was resolved. And indeed at this point in time, the service is up and running with no problems whatsoever. Various users have started reporting not being able to sign in to their accounts, and the fa... |
10 April 2009
05:29 GMT |
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Microsoft has warned users against fake emails claiming to be from the Windows Live team asking them for their account data. The Redmond company has described a scenario in which the fraudulent email messages masquerading as being sent from Windows Live request sensitive information such as username, password, date o... |
17 March 2009
10:52 GMT |
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Microsoft has officially confirmed having finished introducing POP3 support to all Windows Live Hotmail users. “POP3 technology has now rolled out to Hotmail customers WORLDWIDE!” reads a message from a member of the Windows Live Hotmail team. Via POP3 support, users will be able to bridge their online ac... |
13 March 2009
13:53 GMT |
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On March 12, 2009, Microsoft confirmed that Windows Live Hotmail was experiencing what the company referred to as a temporary outage. The software giant however failed to reveal any additional information; still, users were getting “server too busy” error messages, and reported that they were unable to co... |
13 March 2009
08:04 GMT |
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Microsoft has confirmed issues with Windows Live Hotmail, revealing that the service cannot be accessed by a range of users who are confronted with various login problems. At the end of the past week, Softpedia started receiving reports from Firefox users that the open source browser was blocking Windows Live Hotmail... |
17 February 2009
05:11 GMT |
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Windows Live Hotmail is evolving yet again, following the introduction of Wave 3, which debuted in the fall of 2008. The past week, Microsoft started rolling out a new update for Windows Live Hotmail designed to add new features, but also tweak the service in accordance with user feedback. The sof... |
9 February 2009
11:31 GMT |
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As of version 1.0.154.46, Google Chrome plays nice with Windows Live Hotmail. But Google's browser did not have issues with Microsoft's email service alone, as Chrome users also ran into problems when it came down to sending emails using Yahoo. The patch introduced by Google does not actually resolve the Ho... |
30 January 2009
04:38 GMT |
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As of January 14, Windows Live Hotmail Wave 3 supports POP3 technology for a number of markets around the world including United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, France, Japan, Spain, Germany, Italy, and the Netherlands. Microsoft confirmed that, as an integral part of wrapping up the availability of Wave 3, Windows Live ... |
15 January 2009
16:01 GMT |
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Microsoft has started rolling out POP3 support for the latest version of Windows Live Hotmail, namely Wave 3. With the introduction of the protocol, Windows Live Hotmail users will be able to aggregate all of their Windows Live Hotmail content in email clients on various devices, from desktop PCs to laptops and to mo... |
14 January 2009
17:01 GMT |
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Since the introduction of Windows Live for Windows Mobile in mid-2008, Microsoft has been dealing with a range of problems reported by end-users revolving around the Hotmail component of the package. However, the Redmond company has yet to resolve all the issues involving poor synchronization between Windows Live Hot... |
29 December 2008
08:55 GMT |
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In the first half of November 2008, Microsoft was wrapping up the roll-out process of Windows Live Hotmail Wave 3. Upgrading from Windows Live Hotmail Wave 2, introduced at the end of 2007, to Wave 3 has been so far, and will continue to be, a very bumpy ride for Microsoft. The Wave 3 upgrade, debuted at the end of S... |
19 December 2008
15:31 GMT |
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Microsoft is applauding a new level of stability and reliability when it comes down to integrating Windows Live Hotmail and Windows Live Calendar in Microsoft Outlook via the Office Outlook Connector. In this regard, at the start of this week the Redmond company made available for download Office Outlook Connector 12... |
17 December 2008
08:32 GMT |
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Introduced on December 15, 2008, the Windows Live Solution Center is designed to provide users of the Windows Live collection of applications and services with a centralized location capable of dealing with their feedback. However, prioritizing its Windows Live solutions, the Center is available exclusively for Windo... |
16 December 2008
06:09 GMT |
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Microsoft is hammering away at the latest iteration of its online email service in an attempt to resolve the plethora of issues plaguing the most recent version rolled out to users as a part of Windows Live Wave 3. According to the Redmond company, the vast majority of Live Hotmail users are not experiencing any prob... |
26 November 2008
13:41 GMT |
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With the evolution of Windows Live suite of applications and services, Microsoft is introducing not only under-the-hood optimizations, new features and capabilities, but also a design overhaul. The revamping of the visual style ranges from the graphical user interface of the client and Cloud services, to the icons re... |
14 November 2008
13:07 GMT |
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Microsoft has officially started rolling out the next generation of its Windows Live suite of applications and services. According to the Redmond company, Windows Live Wave 3 will start being unveiled in the U.S. over the coming weeks. However, the Wave 3 updates will stretch well into early 2009 as far as the global... |
13 November 2008
12:58 GMT |
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Microsoft has started implementing the Wave 3 release of Windows Live Hotmail, and the rolling out process is continuing even now. However, it appears that the Redmond company has run into a variety of problems, which are not widespread at this point in time thanks to the gradual release of the latest version of the ... |
3 October 2008
10:10 GMT |
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At the end of the past week, Microsoft labeled the Wave 3 update due for Windows Live Hotmail as “coming soon.” Traditionally, the Redmond company rolls out Windows Live Hotmail upgrades gradually to all users of the service over a period of several weeks, and this is the main reason why the Wave 3 upgrad... |
30 September 2008
11:33 GMT |
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Concomitantly with the introduction of the Windows Live Wave 3 public Beta, Microsoft has also delivered an evolved version of the Outlook add-in designed to bridge its desktop clients with its online email services. Office Outlook Connector 12.1 Beta 2 is a new example of how the Redmond giant is expanding the Windo... |
22 September 2008
07:47 GMT |
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Microsoft is cooking the Wave 3 release of its Windows Live suite of products and services with an availability deadline planned before the end of 2008. However, Windows Live Wave 3 might in fact be just around the corner. Proof of such a scenario is offered by the Windows Live Wave 3 preview page for Hotmail. The al... |
25 August 2008
23:24 GMT |
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Microsoft has warned Windows Live Hotmail users that a new phishing scam is in progress, designed to hijack accounts. According to a member of the Windows Live Hotmail team, users have started receiving phishing messages warning of the immediate shutdown of their accounts with the Microsoft email service unless they ... |
12 August 2008
05:40 GMT |
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