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 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 Seventh Annual MSN Strategic Account Summit
Two-day forum at Microsoft campus focuses on inventive approaches to connecting advertisers and consumers online; featured speakers include Jay-Z, Donny Deutsch and Sir Martin Sorrell.
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3.5.2006 Seventh Annual MSN Strategic Account Summit
Two-day forum at Microsoft campus focuses on inventive approaches to connecting advertisers and consumers online; featured speakers include Jay-Z, Donny Deutsch and Sir Martin Sorrell.
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4.5.2006 MSN to Relaunch as MSN Media Network?
The LiveSide folks are reporting that MSN is looking to relaunch itself as the MSN Media Network. We figured the MSN team would have to do some kind of rebranding, given that most of their properties are now operating under the "Live," rather than the MSN banner. LiveSide says the MSNers are looking to expand their franchises to include
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7.2.2006 Optical storage: RIP
TDK recently demo’d an impressive technical achievement: a 10 layer 320 GB optical disk - using standard Blu-ray (BD) drive technology.
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12.10.2009 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 How to choose Enterprise Based Storage?
Each company produce today a large amount of data that need to be available 24/7, and in case of disaster should be restore in a short time.
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2.4.2006 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 MSN (may) becomes the MSN Media Network
Several sources have indicated to us that MSN plans to relaunch itself as the MSN Media Network, whilst at the same time expanding its range of interactive and content rich services. As well as continuing to deliver content through MSN.com and MSN Music, the MSN Video team is evolving to include Movies and TV. Both these sites have already been revamped at the end of last year and feature show times and reviews as well as the latest entertainment news.
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8.2.2006 Microsoft Acquires WinTarget Storage Technology!
My favourit iSCSI target software tool for Windows is Wintarget, now MS acquired it. So we can expect iSCSI target support in Windows 2003 Storage Server R2!
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5.3.2006 How to delay all outgoing email in Outlook
I've been burnt many times on sending out an email that wasn't quite ready to go out. This could happen for a couple different reasons.
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7.7.2007 1000GB of space for Email at mailnation.net
MailNation Solutions developed after years of exhaustive competition in the Emailing industry. Small email companies have come and go, while large email companies such as Gmail (R), Hotmail (R), and Yahoo! Mail (R) have dominated. Privacy policies with major companies are weak, reliability remains questioned, and features are lacking.
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Google ditches invites for email service
Google will drop the invite system for signing up to Gmail service as of tomorrow.
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15.2.2007 Windows XP Infections Coming by Email
Spammers are always willing to do anything it's possible to create huge lists of valid email addresses in order to be able to launch new attacks. They are even selling huge lists of emails to other spammers who intend to send unsolicited messages to all the contacts.
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27.12.2007 Server Clusters : Storage Area Networks - For W2000 and WS 2003
Brief Description
Describes storage area network components, cluster management, deploying server clusters in a SAN environment, and cluster service features in Windows Server 2003.
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24.1.2006 Microsoft Officially Opened @live.com Email Registration
Microsoft has officially opened the much anticipated and well overdue registration for the new @live.com email addresses.
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6.11.2007 Fake Google Email Attempts to Steal Your Money
We all know that Google, the Mountain View super search giant, communicates with its users by phone or by email every time users have to be informed about important matters.
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23.3.2008 Windows Live Custom Domains - Free Email Hosting
A new service was added to the Windows Live Beta family today - Windows Live Custom Domains. The basic idea is that anyone with a domain can now point their MX record to the Live servers. What that means is that users can have Microsoft's servers hosting their own domain's email accounts for free.
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20.11.2005 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 How to enable Administrator account in Windows 7
Remember the Administrator account that was present in good old Windows XP days? The master Administrator account is not visible by default in Windows 7 or Vista. Here is a simple way to enable it.
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16.8.2009 Vista's User Account Protection: one click and it's gone
Vista's biggest security enhancement is "User Account Protection" (or "User Account Control" ) which pops up and asks for user authentication before software can make any administrative changes to the system.
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9.9.2006 Account Management Update for Zune.net Tomorrow
Cesar lets us know that tomorrow at 10am PDT the Zune Team will be going live with a Account Management Update for Zune.net.
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6.2.2007 Inside Bill Gates real Facebook account
Ever wondered what Bill Gates' Facebook really looks like?
This week, reports have surfaced that Bill Gates stopped using Facebook because too many people wanted to add him as a friend.
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26.7.2009 Turn Off or Disable User Account Control (UAC) in Windows Vista
User Account Control (UAC) is a new security feature in Windows Vista that requires all users to log on and run in standard user privileges mode instead of as administrator with full administrative rights, thus prevent unauthorized or accidental changes that could destabilize the computers or allows virus and malware to exploit the system-level privileges provided to the local administrator to attack the network security, compromise computer safety and privacy, and damage files and settings in the network.
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19.12.2006 Jim Allchin explains Windows Vista User Account Control
One of the most basic conundrums in computer security is the constant trade-off between security and usability. At the end of the day, if security is too complicated to use, then it simply won't be used.
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24.1.2007 Easily Login to Windows XP with No Password Administrator Account Backdoor Trick
In password-protected Windows XP Home or Professional edition system, each user logs on to his or her own user name and password to have full access to the Windows computer.
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25.11.2006 PC login Now - How To Change a Windows XP Limited User Account Into a Computer Administrator
One of the place that I work at has a few hundreds of computers and it is shared by students.
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12.7.2008 The Vista Built-in Super Administrator Account Has Survived in Vista SP1
Windows Vista Service Pack 1 is designed to evolve the RTM version of the latest Windows client from Microsoft, made available in November 2006 to business customers, and in January 2007 to the general consumers.
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15.2.2008 Instantly Link Windows Live ID with Windows 7 User Account
Microsoft Windows 7 lets you add Online ID providers like Windows Live ID and associate with Windows 7 user. Here is Windows Live ID Sign-in Assistant 6.5 installs the Windows Live ID online provider for Windows 7.
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5.10.2009Undo send email in Gmail
Many times we forget to add attachments, notice a spelling mistake or forgot to add something in the email. New in Google Labs is an add-on to your
account that can undo the email you just sent, with a limit of five seconds, allowing you to go back and re-edit the email you previously just sent.
Once the add-on is enabled under your Gmail settings, Labs and Undo Send, users will be promoted with an "Undo" button after sending an email,
giving them just enough time to prevent regrettable emails. If users opt to undo the email they had just sent, they will be taken back to the email
where edits can be made.
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20.03.2009Hotmail 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 Bumps Skydrive to 5gb
Microsoft has increased storage on
Windows Live Skydrive to 5GB, up by a multiple of five
from its previous limit of 1GB (the 1GB having doubled the original 500mb in October).
Erick compared Skydrive to Gmail in an apples and
oranges comparison last time; my Gmail account sits at 6.4gb today so Skydrive is still behind, having said that I’m not sure how many (average)
people would use Gmail for online storage, so the comparison doesn’t make a lot of sense.
The more notable point is that Microsoft
continues to grow its online storage offering when Google simply hasn’t launched the fabled Platypus online storage solution despite years of
speculation and rumors. This is one space where Microsoft has the upper hand, and a 4gb storage jump will further increase the appeal of the
product.
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22.02.2008Sam's Tip of the Week #3 - Switching to Gmail, the No-Pain Way
Gmail is a very powerful web-based email solution with free IMAP access. I’m not going to go over reasons to switch to Gmail in this tip,
just a way to ease your transition.
The problem every time you switch email services is that you have to switch your address at every site
you use and notify all of your contacts that you have a new address. Oh, and you lose all of your mail.
Gmail includes a really nice
feature: it can receive email from your old address and plop it right into your Gmail inbox, as if it were sent to your Gmail address. This means that
you don’t have to switch your address anywhere if you don’t want to bother.
To enable this feature, first log in to your Gmail
account. Open Settings, and select the “Accounts” tab. Under this tab, you’ll see a section labeled “Get mail from other
accounts.” Click “Add a mail account you own.”
jcxp.net - 27.08.2009
Google vows to increase Gmail storage limit
Google Incorporateds Gmail Web-based e-mail service may have an incrementing storage space counter, but apparently it’s not going fast enough
– and so the search giant has announced plans to speed it up. " A few of you are using Gmail so much that youre running out of space, so
to make good on our promise, today were announcing we are speeding up our counter and giving out more free storage ," said Google engineer Rob
Siemborski.
When it launched in 2004, Gmail offered free accounts with 1GB of storage and by April 2005 Google started gradually increasing
Gmail storage when the service turned one year old. Google got the ball rolling: this year Microsoft Corporation upped its free storage limit for its
Windows Live Hotmail service to 5GB in August, and Yahoo Incorporated started offering "unlimited" storage in May.
neowin.net - 13.10.2007
Hotmail 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.
neowin.net - 15.08.2007
Updated: Hotmail users getting locked out
As a follow-up to last week's story on Hotmail users getting locked
out, the second account mentioned has been restored.
Last Wednesday, Hotmail account holder Will showed CNET an e-mail
verifying that he notified Microsoft on May 2 that his Hotmail password had been changed without his knowledge. Microsoft support staff responded with
the following message: "Thank you for your message to MSN and Windows Live Privacy. I understand you are having difficulties accessing your MSN
Hotmail account because you believe someone has gained unauthorized access to your account. For assistance with this issue, please contact the MSN
Support staff using the (following) form."
winbeta.org - 05.06.2008
IBM and Microsoft strike email archiving deal
Tiered archive offering will
be sold alongside Windows
Server, following a
co-marketing agreement
announced this week
Microsoft is teaming up with
IBM to offer email archiving
products to help its customers
control their spiralling
quantities of data. As part of
a co-marketing agreement, IBM
will offer an archiving
service bundled with Windows
Server.
The
offering revolves around
IBM's CommonStore email
archiving solution, its System
Storage Archive Manager
software and its System
Storage disk storage system.
It is intended to help
organisations store email in
the most appropriate format.
IBM offers a tiered system of
storage across both disk and
tape.
The volume of
corporate email has quadrupled
in five years, according to
analyst group IDC, with sales
of email-archiving solutions
projected to reach ũbn in
2010.
neowin.net - 20.10.2006
GMail: 42GB Free Storage by 2038
Gmail just revised their storage estimates for the next 1449 years. Googlified dug around in the code and discovered that youll be getting a tiny increase to 2912MB on Friday, 4.2GB by October 23,
6GB by January 4 2008, 42GB by 2038 and 2.70266701 × 1072 TB by 3456. Google has since since confirmed by on the Gmail blog that the counters speed has
been increased.
Meanwhile, the paid storage is also getting a bump: $20 used to buy you 6GB extra, but it will now get you 10GB.
The other prices are 40GB for 75/year, 150GB for $250/year and 400GB for $500/year.
This is reassuring: Google is going to keep
increasing the free storage despite having a paid plan they could push users over to. If youre just about to exceed the limit on your Gmail account
and youre planning to add paid storage, it may be worth holding on for 11 more days. And somehow I dont think 42GB will be considered very much by
2038: I expect well be talking in terabytes by then.
winbeta.org - 12.10.2007
Gmail is 5 years old today
It's hard to believe but five years ago Gmail was launched and changed how we view email storage forever. If you recall when Gmail was made
semi-public it shattered the email storage capacity for any available free service. Storage was measured in gigs and you seemingly could store
unlimited amounts of emails. The Gmail launch also started a frenzy of trying to acquire an invite to the service. It was a clever but very
effective technique by Google to give out invites to users who would then get 10 more invites and so on which caused people to start selling them on
Ebay.
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neowin.net - 06.04.2009
MSN Opens U.S. adCenter Beta
MSN said it was opening up its
adCenter self-serve
advertising pilot to U.S.
advertisers for a period of
three hours beginning at 12pm
Eastern Time on Monday. During
that period, advertisers would
be able to create an account
for a $5 one-time fee...
betanews.com - 06.03.2006
MSN Spaces Gets An Update
Ever since the talk about
Windows Live started,
Microsoft had announced that
their increasingly popular MSN
Spaces site would be getting
an update.
Well, on Thursday Microsoft
released their all new updated
MSN Spaces. New features that
came with the update include
all new themes which brings
the total amount of available
themes up to an amazing 129
choices, the "/members/"
part of the URL has now been
removed, the limit on photo
uploads has been increased to
500 per month.
And the main feature of this
upgrade is the all new
integration with MSN Profiles.
"Profiles" is no longer a
separate service and is now
completely integrated with
Spaces. Another update is the
upgrades to the MSN Spaces
servers which has increased
the availability of the MSN
Spaces service, however at the
moment, MSN Spaces is
currently running at slow
speeds due to high
activity.
jcxp.net - 28.01.2006
TwitterMSN Available
Twitter
is the popular web service
that started a revolution by
allowing users to answer and
share their responses to the
simple question: "What are
you doing?" Rapidly morphing
into a micro-blogging service
that hyper-connected users
update and check obsessively,
Twitter gained momemtum.
Recently the service garnered
mainstream attention in a Wall
Street Journal article
on the subject of media
marketing in Twitter.
Now arrives a new 3rd
party service called
TwitterMSN, integrating
Twitter into your Windows Live
Messenger application. The
TwitterMSN service allows you
to update your Twitter account
from your MSN account. To use
the service, you just have to
add msn@twittermsn.com to your
Window Live Messenger friends
list. Additionally, this third
party service also lets you
receive the friends' updates,
automatically converts URLs to
TinyURL, sends tweets even
when Twitter is down, and
allows you to extend past
Twitter's built-in 140
character limit.
winbeta.org - 25.07.2007
Twitter administrator account hacked, others compromised
It seems Twitter is still having its share of security trouble, because according to Cnet, a person by the name of Hacker Croll was able to hack into
a Twitter administrator account, by guessing the secret question to reset the administrator's password on a Yahoo e-mail account where the Twitter
password was located. This person was also able to view the details of 10 other accounts including Britney Spears and Ashton Kutcher according to
screenshots posted to a French blog site. Twitter co-founder Biz Stone said that while no account information was altered or removed in any way,
email address, mobile phone number, and the list of accounts blocked by that user were viewed.
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neowin.net - 02.05.2009
How to Connect Your Email Address to Your OpenID Account
OpenID is an excellent solution for establishing a single identity for all your online accounts, but many people haven’t even tried it yet. For
some, the concept of using a URL address for a login ID instead of the traditional email address is still completely foreign.
However, Email to ID could be what the doctor ordered and what these creatures of habits
need. It could also be what OpenID needs in order to expedite wide-spread acceptance as the single sign on identity standard. You can now link your
email address (or several of them) to your OpenID and then use that email address (any of them) to log into any online service that supports it! The
beauty rests in the simplicity of it all. Best of all, it’s all free and easy to do.
winbeta.org - 01.10.2008
Jobs' Amazon account exposed, idiot wants to sell details
When you're a celebrity or a high profile citizen, it's not uncommon to be targeted by selfish individuals looking to make a dollar at your
expense. It's possible that Steve Jobs has fallen victim to a phishing scam that may have given access to his Amazon account. CultofMac.com is
reporting that they have been contacted by a phishing artist who managed to get into Steve Jobs' Amazon account by claiming to have "sent Jobs a
phony but official-looking email that tricked him into logging onto a fake Amazon.com website".
Read full story.....
neowin.net - 15.05.2009
Preview: Windows Live Hotmail's Web Messenger
In the coming weeks Microsoft will release more updates to its Windows Live Hotmail email service. Recent updates have included POP access, an
increase in speed and performance, a Windows Live Calendar update, an interface update, better spam protection, bug fixes, and other changes in
response to feedback. On top of that, we can expect to see an integrated web messenger, access to other email accounts through POP aggregation,
what's new feed integration, and unlimited storage. Some of us have been waiting a long time for a Windows Live web messenger, a much needed
update to Microsoft's current MSN Web Messenger offering. In the meantime, rival instant messengers Yahoo!
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neowin.net - 28.01.2009
Hotmail Plus now offers POP Access
Users for years have been lamenting the fact that Hotmail was only available as an http protocol, and did not offer POP access. Well that's now changed for Hotmail Plus users, and plans are
in the works for making POP access available to all Hotmail users for free, according to a blog post by Lead Program Manager for
Hotmail Omar Shahine.
starting this week Hotmail Plus users ($19.95 a year) will be able to use POP access from any device. In the interest of
transparency though I want to be clear that we have plans to offer POP to all users (all premium and free) but we aren't ready to do that yet. I
can't comment on a timeframe for when free users will get POP, but we hope to do so within the next 12 months.
If you do take
advantage of this premium feature and sign up for Hotmail plus you'll also get an ad-free experience, more storage, larger attachment support, and
a non expiring account.
Our POP service requires that you use Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) with the POP and SMTP connection and
use SMTP authentication. This is to ensure that your email address and password are not subject to tampering. The settings are the following:
- POP: pop3.live.com (port 995)
- SMTP: smtp.live.com (port 25)
- Note: make sure you check the box that indicates
that your outgoing server requires authentication (in most mail clients this is not checked by default).
- Username: your full email
address
- Password: your Windows Live ID password
This means that a Hotmail Plus account will now allow users of email
clients such as Eudora, Thunderbird, and Apple Mail, as well as most mobile devices including the Apple iPhone, will now be able to access their
Hotmail accounts.
Shahine notes that at this time the change pertains to Hotmail Plus accounts only, and not MSN Premium
accounts.
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22.09.2007Microsoft: Closing your digital locker account
Microsoft sent out an email today to digital locker subscribers that their digital locker account is closing down on August 2009 and Windows
Marketplace has now transitioned from an e-commerce site to a reference site. Windows Marketplace is now replaced by the newly opened Microsoft
Store. As part of this transition, the digital locker service affiliated with Windows Marketplace will be closed in August, 2009. If you made a
purchase on Windows Marketplace, you acquired a digital locker account in order to purchase, download and install products from Windows Marketplace.
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12.12.2008Neowin Introduces Neowin Members Mail
Today we are proud to launch Neowin Member Mail, powered by Windows Live Hotmail. This service is free and provides our members with one e-mail
address from a selection of custom (neowin) domains.
In order to further improve services to members, there are some handy links on the
Services page along with the option to sign up to our weekly news letter in conjunction with
Techspot, you will start to see further improvements and services added to that page in due course. In short a one stop page for
services offered to our members and guest readers.
You will only be able to register one email to your member name here on Neowin, the name
suggested is your member name but you can choose anything -- it cannot be changed by Neowin staff later! Look for the small envelope at the top of the
page that will be across Neowin to access the email account and other services.
Note: When you first log in to your Neowin e-mail account,
it will suggest you setup a backup e-mail address. THIS IS SUGGESTED, as that is the only way you can have your password reset -- Neowin staff cannot
do this for you.
Update: A glitch in the code prevented members from signing up and limited access only to subscribers. This should be
corrected. If you attempted to create an email address and were denied access please try again.
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