MSN Hotmail hits 1GB storage limit
Microsoft Corp on Wednesday announced a global storage upgrade for MSN Hotmail accounts by increasing the storage limit from 250 MB to 1 GB. Also extended was the expiration period for inactive accounts from 30 days to 60 days for accounts that are more than two years old.
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17.11.2006 Samsung develops new graphics memory speed limit
Samsung is getting ready to produce extremely fast memory chips to be used on future graphics cards.
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25.2.2007 Microsoft To Extend Windows XP Deadline For OEMs
Microsoft will announce later today that it will give OEMs six additional months to sell PCs with Windows XP installed, CRN has learned.
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27.9.2007 Google vows to increase Gmail storage limit
People using Google Inc.'s Gmail service are sucking up storage space faster than the company can add it.
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13.10.2007 EU warns Microsoft to limit Windows Vista features
The European Union's top competition regulator has warned Microsoft Corp it won't be allowed to sell its new Vista operating system in Europe if it comes pre-loaded with certain features, the Wall Street Journal said on Wednesday.
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29.3.2006 Extend Laptop/Notebook Battery Life on Windows 7 & Vista with Aerofoil
In past we have covered Battery4life & Imtec Battery Mark tools for laptop battery. Now here is one more extremely useful tool Aerofoil which helps you to extend & improve Laptop battery life when you are using Windows Vista or Windows 7 as your OS.
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25.10.2009 Rearm and Extend Activation Grace Period in Windows Vista and Server 2008
Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008 has free activation grace period which allows user to install and use the operating system for 120 days and 240 days without product key or product activation completed.
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8.6.2008 How to Rearm and Extend Free Usage Activation Grace Period of Windows 7 to 120 Days
Windows 7 (SeVeN) is probably going to continue the trial software trend that starts with Windows Vista’s rearm, that user can install Windows 7 without any product key for free usage of 30 days as evaluation period.
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5.11.2008 How to Rearm and Extend Office 2010 Activation Grace Period for Free 180 Days Usage
Microsoft has implemented product activation scheme named Office Protection Platformm (OPP) that similar with Windows Product Activation (WPA) and Software Protection Platform (SPP) for Windows Vista and Windows Activation Technologies (WAT) Windows 7 in Microsoft Office 2010, where all copy of Office 2010 installed has to be activated, with 30 days activation grace period.
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3.9.2009 Disable and Remove Half-Open TCP Connections Limit (to Unlimited) in Windows 7 and Vista SP2 with EnableConnectionRateLimitin Registry Key
Officially, the incomplete half-open outbound TCP connection attempts allowed at any one time is now unlimited by default in Windows Server 2008 and Vista SP2 (Service Pack 2), and Windows 7. Actually, the ability to limit or restrict number of half-open outgoing TCP connections system can create or establish is built into Windows Vista SP2 and Windows 7, however it’s disabled by default.
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8.6.2009 Microsoft Goes Back to Hotmail
Just on the heels of another great release for the beta (M9), I’d like to share some interesting news to our loyal users. When we launch the mail service worldwide, it will be named Windows Live Hotmail.
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8.2.2007 Web IM in Hotmail!
Yes, you’ve been asking us, and we promised you’d get it soon. Well, the moment you’ve been waiting for has finally arrived: instant messaging from the web is here!
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21.4.2009 New Hotmail Beta Features Revealed
Microsoft has released to the public a full list, with pictures and FAQ, on how to use the new Hotmail Beta system. Similar to Microsoft Outlook, the new "Mail Beta" takes on a new ease-of-use look and feel. Check out the full featured release from Microsoft below.
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Microsoft to bring Hotmail onto the desktop
Microsoft has started beta testing software that will take its Web e-mail onto the desktop.
This week, Microsoft served up the first test version of Windows Live Mail Desktop, a free Windows program that will let users manage multiple e-mail accounts. The software is designed to work with Windows Live Mail, the successor to Hotmail that is also in beta testing.
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31.3.2006 Hotmail used to launch extortion scam
A Hotmail user logged into their account this week to find that scammers had deleted all their e-mails except for one, which was from a hacker demanding cash in exchange for restoring the lost information, according to Websense.
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15.12.2006 Hotmail users report connection issues
Several users of Microsoft's Hotmail service reported having problems with the free e-mail service on Tuesday. Microsoft late Tuesday confirmed the issue and said it has been fixed.
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19.4.2006 Windows Live Hotmail Set for May US Release
Microsoft is preparing to launch Windows Live Hotmail in the United States by next month, although customers in India and Belgium will begin seeing the updates later this week, the company is expected to announce Tuesday.
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17.4.2007 Windows Live Hotmail Launches in US on Monday
As first reported by BetaNews in mid-April, Microsoft is on track to launch Windows Live Hotmail in the United States on Monday, sources are now confirming.
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5.5.2007 Thousands of Hotmail passwords leaked online
We has received information regarding a possible Windows Live Hotmail "hack" or phishing scheme where password details of thousands of Hotmail accounts have been posted online.
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5.10.2009 XP MCE 2005 Hotmail Add-in Due Soon
According to Sean Alexander (Microsoft Group Product Manager Windows Vista) an add-in for Hotmail functionality in Windows Media Center Edition 2005 is due for release next week.
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Microsoft Prepares to release Windows Live Hotmail
Windows Live Hotmail (previous named Windows Live Mail) testers have received an e-mail from Microsoft with the words "we're getting ready to launch" although there is no notice of a date.
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2.5.2007 Microsoft Launches Windows Live Hotmail Worldwide
Built from the ground up, the new Windows Live Hotmail is now safer, more powerful and available virtually anywhere.
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7.5.2007 Windows Live Hotmail wave 3 rollout begins
As we reported on last week, Microsoft has been prepping a big refresh for Windows Live Hotmail users. Starting this week, users should begin noticing changes to their interface.
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30.9.2008 Microsoft Rolling Out POP3 for Windows Live Hotmail
Microsoft has started rolling out POP3 support for the latest version of Windows Live Hotmail, namely Wave 3.
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14.1.2009 Microsoft to kill Hotmail via Outlook Express on September 1
If you're still using Outlook Express for checking your Windows Live Hotmail, listen up.
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4.6.2009 Microsoft Amputates New Features From Windows Live Hotmail Wave 3
In the first half of November 2008, Microsoft was wrapping up the roll-out process of Windows Live Hotmail Wave 3.
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19.12.2008Microsoft Updates Hotmail: Faster Interface and More Storage
Microsoft is slowly releasing a new version
Windows Live Hotmail this week, though, as LiveSide.net
reports, many users are having problems with the new design
and want Microsoft to revert back to the old layout. We have been looking at the new version of Hotmail for most of the morning and have not seen any
problems with it so far. The new layout will take some getting used to, but overall, it is simpler and faster than the old Hotmail and Microsoft has
significantly increased the storage limit.
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30.09.2008Hotmail Gets Storage Limit Bump, Other Upgrades
Microsoft announced today that
Hotmail would undergo some
major upgrades over the next
several weeks that should make
the service more attractive to
webmail users. The most
notable change is that the
company is bumping the storage
limit for Hotmail from 2GB
(for free account users) to
5GB, and from 4GB to 10GB for
paid users. This brings
Hotmail's storage limit above
that offered by Google-which
remains at 2.8GB for free
accounts and 8.8GB for the
lowest tier of paid
accounts.
That's
not the only upgrade the
webmail service is getting.
Hotmail program manager Ellie
Powers-Boyle wrote on the
Windows Live Blog that the
team has begun adding features
that the "more advanced"
users have been asking for.
Some of the more general
upgrades include performance
and quality of service
enhancements and an increase
to the amount of time junk
mail and deleted items are
kept on the server.
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15.08.2007Microsoft sues more alleged Hotmail spammers
Microsoft has filed two
lawsuits over the past weeks
looking to crack down on spam
on its Windows Live Hotmail
network.
The "John
Doe" lawsuits were filed
against unknown alleged
spammers who had been sending
large quantities of spam
advertising debt relief and
adult Web sites to Hotmail
accounts.
Microsoft
alleges that a company doing
business under the name
Consumer Solutions Network
sent "misleading, deceptive,
and unsolicited commercial
e-mails advertising debt
relief help to Windows Live
Hotmail account holders."
The spam contained
subject lines such as
"Michelle, accounts over the
limit," or "Robert, Payment
not received," the suit
alleges. ..
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24.06.2007Hotmail users get a storage bump
"Today, these new features
will begin to roll our
gradually to all our customers
over the next few weeks, so if
you dont immediately see them,
be patient, theyre
coming!"
Microsoft on Monday made a
series of updates to its
Windows Live Hotmail service,
chief among those being an
increase in the size of its
inboxes. Standard users now
get 5GB of storage, while paid
MSN Premium and Hotmail Plus
accounts now get 10GB of
storage.
The move follows Yahoo's
decision to offer its mail
customers unlimited storage.
Google's Gmail currently
touts 2.89GB worth of free
storage for its accounts.
Apple also recently upped its
.Mac storage limit to 10GB,
split between mail and file
storage.
In addition, Microsoft
said that Windows Live Hotmail
is also adding the ability to
accept and decline meeting
requests from Outlook accounts
as well as a tool for
eliminating duplicate contacts
and an easier way to switch to
Hotmail from another mail
service. ..
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14.08.2007Microsoft confirms Hotmail POP3 access for US and Brazil
Earlier, you may remember Neowin reporting that the Windows Live team had added POP3 functionality to their Hotmail service. Unfortunately, it has
only available in select countries, but now they've expanded. A blog post from the Windows Live Hotmail team has confirmed that you can now get
POP3 Hotmail access in the United States, and Brazil. Microsoft has been adding more features to Hotmail over the last week and had promised POP3
access for the US and Brazil would be coming this week, and they have delivered. Previously, United States users of Hotmail had to change their
country to get access on mobile devices. Now it's natively supported, ready to go.
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13.02.2009US Gov't Looks to Extend MS
Oversight
The U.S. government asked a
federal judge Wednesday to
extend its oversight of
Microsoft by an additional two
years, with the option to
further extend it through 2012
if necessary. Both parties
have come to an agreement that
progress on portions of the
deal has come too slowly...
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31.08.2006Windows Live Mail Now 'Live Hotmail'
In an attempt to allay
confusion over its new
AJAX-enabled webmail system,
Microsoft said Thursday that
Windows Live Mail was being
renamed to Windows Live
Hotmail. The decision follows
a recent switch to keep the
classic Hotmail interface for
existing users...
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09.02.2007Microsoft Prepares to release Windows Live Hotmail
Windows Live Hotmail (previous
named Windows Live Mail)
testers have received an
e-mail from Microsoft with the
words " we're getting
ready to launch " although
there is no notice of a date.
Microsoft is also offering two
small gifts for beta
participation: a "Free Beta
Badge" and a "Great Windows
Vista Offer". The link
following the offers the beta
tester three signatures with
the embedded words " I was
a Beta Tester for Windows Live
Hotmail ". The second
offer is for a $100
discount on a high-performance
Gateway FX530 Series PC with
Windows Vista Ultimate with a
2 system limit per customer or
four free (with mail-in
rebate) " hardware
accessories from Epson,
Kingston, D-Link and Artec
with a custom-built system
running Windows Vista Ultimate
from a local PC
builder ".
Windows Live Hotmail is
currently on the tenth
milestone, M10 - released on
April 2, 2007. M4 was
publically released on
November 29, 2005. What does
Neowin think, is WLH ready for
a release?
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02.05.2007Microsoft preps Live Hotmail refresh
Microsoft has been doing a lot this week to help boost the image of the future for their Live services, along with the
recently released "wave 3" of Windows
Live utilities, Microsoft has sent
an
email out to their Live Hotmail subscribers outlining some of the changes they have planned to give a boost to the service.
Based on
customer feedback, Microsoft has focused on making the next version of Live Hotmail faster, in fact they claim the next version will be nearly 70%
faster when signing in, opening and viewing messages when used with a broadband connection and up to 56% faster on slower connections.
To
add a new twist to the ever increasing storage-size war between Microsoft, Google and Yahoo... Microsoft has upped the ante by planning to introduce a
storage system that "will grow with you" -- while not mentioning specifics, they claim that as you need more storage for your messages, you'll
get it and while there will be a limit it will be "so large that chances are you won't even come close to them."
Other new features
include the ability to IM directly from the Hotmail interface, improvements to the calendaring system and a revamped UI. Rumor has it that the UI will
attempt to merge some of the innovations of the latest version with the more familiar, simpler, Hotmail that layout users were used to before the last
upgrade.
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20.09.2008How to check your Hotmail in Safari (3 or) 4
Like a lot of other issues with Hotmail and non-IE browsers, you just need to change the User Agent string to fool Hotmail into thinking it is dealing
with a browser it knows about. In Safari, this is pretty easy to do. As far as we can tell, however, Safari doesnt remember the User Agent settings
from session to session, so you would need to reset the User Agent for each new session that you want to check your Hotmail account.
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08.03.2009Microsoft warns of latest Windows Live Hotmail phishing scam
Microsoft is warning Windows Live Hotmail users of a recent phishing scam that asks for the person's username, password, date of birth, and country
or territory. It's not clear why the software giant has taken the time to warn users of this particular phishing scam, as this definitely isn't the
first Microsoft- or Hotmail-related one. Hopefully, it has nothing to do with its success rate, but it's likely due to the fact that the e-mail
claims it is from the Windows Live Hotmail team, both in the signature and at the start: "This Email is from Hotmail Customer Care and we are sending
it to every Hotmail Email User Accounts Owner for safety."
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12.08.2008Free Windows Live Hotmail POP3 access has gone worldwide
About a month ago we reported that Microsoft was rolling out free POP3 access to Windows Live Hotmail customers in select markets. For the vast
majority, including myself, the updates had yet to hit their accounts. Well the wait is over, the Windows Live Hotmail team has officially announced
that POP3 access for all Windows Live Hotmail accounts has now rolled out to every customer. Here are the settings to access your e-mail messages via
POP3: POP server: pop3.live.com (Port 995) POP SSL required? Yes User name: Your Windows Live ID, for example yourname@hotmail.com Password: The
password you usually use to sign in to Hotmail or Windows Live SMTP server: smtp.live.com (Port 25 or 587) Authentication required?
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13.03.2009Free Hotmail POP3 access now available and Hotmail updates
So now that we've all recovered from the CES 2009, everyone is back to business including the folks up in Redmond, WA. It has been confirmed that
Microsoft has started rolling out another major update of Windows Live Hotmail, which includes POP access as discussed in my interview with Ryan Gavin
and Dharmesh Mehta. Last week we reported a rumour that Microsoft was about to offer POP3 access to Hotmail users at no extra charge. Microsoft has
confirmed the rumour via its Windows Live Wire blog today. POP3 access is now available to Hotmail users in the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia,
France, Japan, Spain, Germany, Italy, and the Netherlands.
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15.01.2009Google patches Chrome browser to work with Hotmail
LiveSide: Weve been seeing lots of complaints on
Twitter and
elsewhere about Hotmail not working in
Googles new browser, Chrome. So today,
rather than waiting for Hotmail to address the problem, Google patched Chrome to work with Hotmail, by adding support for User Agent spoofing and
appearing to Hotmail as if it were a Safari browser instead. A quick check using the latest Chrome install seems to work fine with Hotmail
(truthfully been to busy playing with Windows 7 to spend much time with Chrome, but there have been lots of mentions of problems)...
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29.01.2009Breaking: Thousands of Hotmail passwords leaked online
Neowin has received information regarding a possible Windows Live Hotmail "hack" or phishing scheme where password details of thousands of Hotmail
accounts have been posted online. An anonymous user posted details of the accounts on October 1 at pastebin.com, a site commonly used by developers
to share code snippets. The details have since been removed but Neowin has seen part of the list posted and can confirm the accounts are genuine and
most appear to be based in Europe. The list details over 10,000 accounts starting from A through to B, suggesting there could be additional lists.
Currently it appears only accounts used to access Microsoft's Windows Live Hotmail have been posted, this includes @hotmail.com, @msn.com and
@live.com accounts.
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05.10.2009Microsoft Launches Live Hotmail Worldwide
Microsoft Corp. today
announced that Windows Live
Hotmail, the successor to MSN
Hotmail, is launching globally
in 36 languages. The most
significant upgrade for
Hotmail since it pioneered the
webmail industry in 1996, the
new service has been built to
be a vast improvement over the
previous Hotmail offering,
having incorporated input from
more than 20 million beta
testers.
Windows Live Hotmail will
deliver a safer, more powerful
and productive e-mail
experience than previous
versions with flexible access
via the Web, on a mobile phone
or with an e-mail client.
Microsoft also announced that
later this month Windows Live
Hotmail customers will be able
to access their Windows Live
Hotmail e-mail and contacts
for free using Microsoft
Office Outlook 2003 or Office
Outlook 2007 via the new
Microsoft Office Outlook
Connector beta.
As Windows Live
Hotmail begins rolling out on
May 7 and continues over the
coming days, consumers will be
able to visit
Hotmail.com<
/a> to sign up for a new
Windows Live Hotmail account.
Current MSN Hotmail customers
can also update their existing
account to Windows Live
Hotmail by logging into their
account and clicking on the
green Join Windows Live
Hotmail button.
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07.05.2007Windows Live mobile announcements at MWC
Along with the revealing of Windows Mobile 6.5 at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Microsoft today also announced the expansion of its various
Windows Live mobile services around the world. Most of the announcements involve the wider distribution of the Windows Live Messenger and Windows Live
Hotmail mobile services to customers of several telecommunications operators worldwide. Here's a quick overview of the news: In Argentina and
Paraguay, Personal are to extend their present deal with Microsoft (which gives its customers access to mobile offerings of Windows Live Messenger,
Hotmail and Spaces through their mobile web browser) with a new product called SIMessenger.
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17.02.2009Comcast sets monthly bandwidth limit for customers
Comcast, the largest provider of cable-based broadband service in the U.S., will limit residential customers to 250GB of bandwidth a month beginning
Oct. 1, the company announced late Thursday. Comcast will contact customers who go above the 250GB limit and ask them to curtail their use, Comcast
said. If a customer goes over the monthly limit again during the following six months, Comcast will suspend service for a year.
Currently,
Comcast contacts high-bandwidth customers and will suspend their accounts if they don't curb their use, but it has not set a firm bandwidth limit
until now. Most customers contacted about their bandwidth usage agree to limit their activity, according to Charlie Douglas, Comcast's director of
communications.
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29.08.2008Windows Live Hotmail Launches in US on Monday
As first reported by BetaNews
in mid-April, Microsoft is on
track to launch Windows Live
Hotmail in the United States
on Monday, sources are now
confirming...
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04.05.2007Microsoft having problems with Windows Live Hotmail Wave 3
Less than a week
ago, Microsoft started to roll out Windows Live Hotmail Wave 3 to users of its e-mail service. It didn't take long for those lucky few users
that got the service to realize that they weren't so lucky after all. On the Windows Live Hotmail Technical Support Blog a post entitled "
Problem seeing your Hotmail Folders" recently appeared with
the following body...
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