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Microsoft targets Yahoo for Hotmail converts

It is a common misconception that Gmail is the biggest email service, but the truth is that Hotmail is largest internationally with 364 million users worldwide, and that it is second only to Yahoo Mail...

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Windows Live Hotmail Updated With New Features

We all know that Windows Live Wave 5 is under development, yet there is no word on its release date from Microsoft. From the past week, many new features are starting to appear for users around the...

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Hotmail gets new HTML5 features, shortcuts

Microsoft has updates Hotmail, bringing better navigation, right click support and keyboard shortcuts and other enhancements which should not just make the web app easier and faster to use, but also...

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Get 10X Faster Hotmail With HTML5 On Latest Browsers

Windows Live team detailed their efforts they did recently to speed up Hotmail for the users. When you are using Hotmail on the web using a browser, you may have experienced delay in opening a mail or...

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Hotmail gets inline playback of mp3 attachments

Hotmail has added a new Active View – an inline MP3 player which allows users to preview music and audio files sent to them. The file can then be downloaded or downloaded as a ZIP file. The feature...

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SkyDrive to get unlimited storage for documents and photos

According to LiveSide.net SkyDrive will soon get unlimited storage for photos and office documents as part of the Wave 5 roll-out of Windows Live services. The service will feature: Unlimited storage...

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Microsoft Details Next-Gen Hotmail Service

Microsoft today detailed the upcoming changes to Hotmail Wave 5 update in an event held in US. Following are some of the features, the new Hotmail which will roll out from today will have, 1)...

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Microsoft Releases Hotmail App For Android Devices

Today Microsoft detailed the upcoming update to Next-gen Hotmail service. There’s huge list of features, you can find them in detail here. Along with the update to its web client, Microsoft announced...

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Hotmail Targeting Power Users With Upcoming New Features

Today Hotmail team detailed the upcoming features in Hotmail that helps us to better manage our email load. They claim that “Hotmail gets flags right”, you may agree with them by seeing what’s coming...

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Microsoft Partners With Agari To Kill E-mail Phishing

Agari is a startup that is working on providing global brands with the tools needed to proactively guard brand reputation, eliminate email threats, protect customers, and prevent the loss of sensitive...

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New Updated Hotmail Rolling Out To More Users

Last month Microsoft Hotmail announced a bunch of new features targeting power users. The update is now rolling out to more number of users. You can just login to Hotmail Web interface and check...

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Microsoft Releases Hotmail App For Kindle Fire

Microsoft today announced the availability of Kindle Fire application for Hotmail. The new app will bring regular Hotmail features based on Exchange ActiveSync to Kindle Fire. Microsoft also released...

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Google finally allows WP7 users to sync multiple calendars, Microsoft...

Google has finally enabled Windows Phone 7 users to sync their phone with multiple Google calendars. Up till now WP7 users had to spoof the process by using an iOS device to select the calendars at...

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Microsoft Testing To Replace Hotmail Display Ads With Deals

Microsoft is testing a new replacement for the traditional banner ads in the Hotmail service. The display ads will be replaced by local deals which the user may be interested in. In an interview with...

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Hotmail down for some

  Reports are rolling in that Windows Live Hotmail is having issues.  My access does not seem to be affected, but the Windows Live Status panel notes people may be having issues signing in, and that...

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Hotmail finally puts Windows Phone front and centre

For too long Microsoft’s Hotmail signup page featured the iPhone front and center, compared to the much smaller Windows Phone and Android handsets (picture right). It seems Microsoft has finally...

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Microsoft Hotmail Team Releases Augmented Reality Game For Windows Phone Devices

Microsoft Hotmail team has released a augmented reality gaming experience for Windows Phone devices. Virtual emails are falling from the sky in the physical space all around you. Catch and sort as...

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Upcoming Metro Designed Hotmail Screenshots Leaked

We all are waiting for the Metro-style redesign of Microsoft web services including Hotmail. Today, screenshots of the upcoming Metro designed Hotmail leaked to the web revealing its beauty. Liveside...

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Over 600 Improvements To Outlook.com In The Last Year Alone

A year ago today, Microsoft introduced the preview of Outlook.com. User feedback has helped in delivering over 600 additions, changes and improvements, packaged in 34 feature releases in the last year....

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Microsoft Updates Outlook.com With Improved Sweep And Search Features

Microsoft today revealed no.of small but useful improvements they made to Outlook.com on their blog. These improvements includes the updated UI for sweep to delete feature, Apply to all from.. in...

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Google/Gmail Glitch: Thousands Of Emails Was Sent To One Man’s Hotmail Account

It seems Google/Gmail’s bad day continues. Following hour long outage causing millions of people without access to their email accounts, a glitch in Google Search and Gmail caused thousands of email to...

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Outlook.com Celebrates One-year Anniversary, You Could Win Celebration Packages

One year ago today, Microsoft’s redesigned Outlook.com came out of preview and rolled out to Hotmail users worldwide. Throughout the year, Microsoft delivered both major and minor updates improving the...

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Microsoft Makes Changes To Its Internal Policy Regarding Snooping Of Customer...

Yesterday, an ex-Microsoft employee was arrested for leaking trade secrets and internal Windows related software builds to a blogger. Court documents revealed that Microsoft snooped into...

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A Look At the Privacy Policies of Microsoft, Yahoo, and Google

Microsoft has been under a storm of criticism lately over reading the emails of a blogger’s Hotmail account linked to an ex-Microsoft employee who leaked Windows 8 builds.  Microsoft looked through the...

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Electronic Frontier Foundation Criticizes Microsoft’s Warrantless Search Of...

, an ex-Microsoft employee was arrested for leaking trade secrets and internal Windows related software builds to a blogger. Court documents revealed that Microsoft snooped into Outlook/Hotmail...

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Microsoft Ends Custom Domain Support For Outlook.com, Suggests Users For...

This was an expected move from Microsoft, Microsoft has finally ended the custom domain support for Outlook.com. Custom domain support was one of the coolest feature that differentiated...

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Rumour: Microsoft to unbundle the Windows Phone mail app

We’ve just come across an interesting rumour which on the face of it appears somewhat ridiculous, but does on closer inspection have some logic to it. According to The REM, Microsoft is planning to...

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Outlook.com Premium Will Offer These Three Extra Features Over Regular Accounts

Last week, we reported about Microsoft piloting Outlook.com Premium which will come with custom domain support. We can now confirm the list of advantages of using Outlook.com Premium over a regular...

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Hotmail: 20 Years Later, New Name, Same Success

Last month, a milestone anniversary came and went with little fanfare.  July 4th marked 20 years since the launch of Hotmail (then labeled HoTMaiL). I was in high school at the time.  Our school had...

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Microsoft says it isn’t scanning your emails, unlike Yahoo!

Yesterday, a report from Reuters  claimed that Yahoo! secretly scanned millions of its users’ emails after receiving a request from the NSA. This, once again, raised some major concerns throughout the...

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