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 Microsoft Puts Limits on Vista Virtualization
Virtual Windows Vista users will have to pay for the high-end OS. With the release of Windows Vista on Tuesday, the final end-user licensing agreement (EULA) is reaching the eyes of the masses – for those who actually care to read through it instead of blindly clicking “next.”
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2.2.2007 Microsoft limits Longhorn's Itanium job duties
Microsoft's Longhorn Server version of Windows will support Intel's Itanium processor, but only for a limited number of higher-end jobs, the software company said on Friday.
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Microsoft Limits Windows Vista Beta2 Downloads
The demand for the Windows Vista Beta2 faced by the US giant has overcome the capabilities of the servers reserved for the online delivery of the recently released operating
system by the sheer amount of the simultaneous downloads.
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13.6.2006 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 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 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 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 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 MSN UK moves
After ten years at msn.co.uk, MSN has today changed its UK domain name to uk.msn.com, in an effort to make their site more accessible to users and increase loading efficiency. Consumers who use several MSN UK services such as Hotmail and MSN Messenger will benefit from easier transition across services without having to log in every time they move to another area of the site.
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6.12.2005 MSN Messenger 7.5.0324
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8.2.2006 MSN Search Spoof
MSN Search celebrates April Fool's with the return of Spoof, the parody tool that uses fake (but hilariously accurate) search results to gently mock friends, bosses, or people who just need to be teased.
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2.4.2006 MSN search down for hours
According to Infoworld Microsoft's MSN search engine suffered an hours-long outage yesterday as results turned to errors.
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7.4.2006 Showusyourwow.msn.com is live
Microsoft launched a new site Show Us Your Wow moment. This is the next Vista looks like site launched as a promotion of Windows Vista.
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8.1.2007 MSN Search Toolbar with Antiphishing
MSN Search Toolbar includes Windows Desktop Search, so you can find anything on your PC - documents, e-mail messages. And three handy toolbars make it easy to search the Web or your PC, block annoying pop-up windows, automatically fill out web forms.
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MSN Answers a Million More Questions
The MSN Search group announced on its team blog last week that it has added "about a million" new Instant Answers (also known as "direct answers") to its service. The MSN folks are expanding MSN Instant Answer responses into new area, ranging from sports to weather to government officials.
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23.1.2006 Ex-MSNBC.com Head to Run MSN.com
Microsoft publicly announced Thursday that it had named John Nicol to head its MSN.com division, who pledged to push for increased investment and "and acquisitions if we need it," however he declined to be more specific.
Nicol had previously served as the head of MSNBC.com several years ago.
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12.2.2006 Microsoft to Rebrand Another MSN Property
Windows Live is part new services, part rebranded services. The latest MSN service slated to get the Live treatment is online shopping.
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19.3.2006 Microsoft Enhances MSN Spaces
Microsoft plans to give its MSN Spaces blog publishing and hosting service new social networking features, as well as support for the company's lightweight applications called Gadgets.
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7.6.2006 MSN Music Shutting Down For Zune
Microsoft has announced that its MSN Music service will be discontinued. The announcement comes a few days before the official US launch of Microsoft's Zune player and its associated Zune Marketplace.
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5.11.2006 How and why Microsoft is breathing new life into MSN
Until recently, when Microsoft execs have touted online services as key to the future of Microsoft, they've almost always meant Microsoft's "Live" services.
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8.12.2006Yahoo! Mail Drops Storage Limits
Starting in May, Yahoo! Mail
will offer all users unlimited
storage, becoming the first
major webmail provider to do
so for non-paying customers.
The company currently offers
1GB of storage for free, and
2GB in its premium service. In
comparison, Microsoft offers
2GB, AOL 5GB, and Google
2.5GB...
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28.03.2007IBM 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.
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20.10.2006Gmail 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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06.04.2009Twitter sets 'following' limits to combat spam
Twitter's new limits, which some are discovering just today, seems to have been made effective since the middle of last month, but don't appear to
be fixed in stone...
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13.08.2008Preview: 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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28.01.2009Hotmail 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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14.08.2007Undo 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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20.03.2009MSN Launches Green Channel
Today MSN added a new channel to its online information and entertainment network called MSN Green a one-stop online resource for the latest
environmental news, exploring the issues and taking action. MSN has teamed up with some of the leading media and environmental sources, MSNBC, Hearst
Magazines (The Daily Green), Conservation International, Environmental Defense, Grist.org, TreeHugger.com and StopGlobalWarming.org, to offer the new
channel, located at
http://green.msn.com.
MSN Green will provide consumers
with environmental information, including articles developed by popular online publications and Web sites, along with multimedia, interactive features
and other content compiled from MSN Lifestyle, MSN Money, MSN Autos, MSN Travel, and the networks other information and entertainment channels.
Categories will include the following.....
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30.10.2007Hotmail's maximum storage size increases to 500 GB
As part of its Wave 3 update announced back in 2008, Windows Live Hotmail was to have "ever increasing storage", and now as reported by LiveSide,
the current maximum mailbox size for Hotmail is 500 GB, and this includes e-mail accounts as part of Windows Live Admin Center, Office Live, and MSN
Premium. The new maximum size is shown in the two screenshots below courtesy of PicturePan2 from LiveSino: Screenshot from MSN Explorer where you
check your inbox folder sizes. It shows the max size being 512000 MB (Note: 512000 MB translates to 500 GB). Screenshot from Office Outlook
Connector, where it shows you the size of your Hotmail mailbox. It too shows the max size being 500 GB.
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21.07.2009New Windows Live Mail Desktop
Feature Revealed
Using their usual "More Than
Mail" blog, the Windows Live
Mail Desktop Beta team
revealed yet another feature
of it, along with a screenshot
of a recent build.
This build seems to
contain yet another UI change,
slight this time, along with
the so-called Active Search
feature.
"People spend the bulk
of their time online doing two
things: checking their email
and searching the web. We
thought we?d bring the two
together, so you can use
search to act on the ideas and
tasks piling up in your
inbox.
Today,
we?re excited to begin testing
a new feature we?re calling
Active Search for Windows Live
Mail Desktop Beta with a small
group of beta participants in
the US.
Active
Search bridges the gap between
your inbox and the broader web
using the power of search.
Using Active Search is
essentially the same as
conducting a ton of related
searches the old fashioned way
? by cutting and pasting terms
from your email into a
separate web browser ? only
without all the
effort."
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03.06.2006Unlimited online storage for free, almost: Wuala
Wuala is a new company with a compelling story for Web users: If you want to share files -- music,
videos, anything -- with your friends and family, it will let you do it for free, with no file size or bandwidth limits.
The
catch: You get 1 GB of storage for free. Beyond that, you get access to free storage in proportion to the amount of storage from your own hard drives
that you share with the Wuala community.
Wuala uses a "mesh" of hard drives from all its users. Everything you share gets
sliced into 500 or so pieces and the distributed in tiny bits, and redundancy, to thousands of other users. When you, or someone you're sharing the
file with, wants to load or play a file, it's pulled in from users, BitTorrent-like.
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19.10.2007MSN Strikes New Entertainment
Deals
Microsoft's MSN division
inked two new content deals on
Wednesday, including an
agreement to rebroadcast the
Bob Marley Festival in Miami
as well as a deal with
Billboard to run a music site
on the MSN Latino service...
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23.02.2006MSN Opens Up adCenter Testing
in US
Microsoft's MSN division is
looking for testers to try out
its new adCenter product in
the United States through a
recently launched pilot
program. Yusuf Mehdi, senior
vice president of MSN, asked
employees last week to invite
businesses who might be
interested in the service...
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12.10.2005Seagate Unveils 12GB 1-Inch
Hard Drive
As consumer devices such as
phones and MP3 players
continually shrink, storage
has remained a persistent
drawback that limits their
usefulness. Seagate thinks it
may have found the answer
thanks to perpendicular
recording technology. The disk
maker on Monday unveiled a
12-gigabyte drive squeezed
into a 1-inch form factor...
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14.02.2006Fujitsu Unveils 300GB Laptop Drive
Fujitsu continues to push the
limits of moble storage,
announcing Monday 250GB and
300GB 2.5-inch laptop hard
drives that utilize
perpendicular magnetic
recording technology. The
Serial ATA drives spin at
4200RPM and have low power
consumption, while improving
shock tolerance...
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12.12.2006End of the line for MSN Web Messenger
Microsoft have announced that their veteran web-based messenger client will become unavailable from this Tuesday, June 30. The service has offered
access to their popular instant messaging network through a web browser for the past five years. Since earlier this year a newer replacement service
for MSN Web Messenger has been available as part of Windows Live Hotmail, featuring direct integration with the email interface and your contact list
(known as Windows Live People). This will now become the only officially supported web-based client for accessing the Windows Live Messenger network,
apart from the Windows Live Messenger Web Toolkit which allows developers to integrate messaging controls into their own websites.
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27.06.2009Next Generation of Soapbox and MSN Video Betas Launched
The Next Generation of Soapbox and MSN Video
Betas Launched. Both MSN Video and
Soapbox on MSN Video Beta launched a next generation
version. The old
MSN Video will keep existing next to the new
MSN Video Beta.
Some of the Upgraded Features...
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25.04.2008Google Labs: Turn your email into a Google Doc
Google has released another experimental feature from their Google Labs offerings, that allows you to turn an email into a Google Doc. Quite often
we might have lengthy email conversations that become tougher to manage going through each conversation. With this new lab feature, you can turn a
whole bunch of similar email conversations into a Google Document. You can turn on this new lab feature by going to the Gmail Labs tab under
Settings, select Enable next to Create a document and hit Save Changes at the bottom. Here is a good example below from my own email.
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19.12.2008MSN 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 more movie and TV
content, as well as some kind
of podcasting service.
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08.02.2006A new storage blog ... THE Storage Blog at Microsoft
Jason Buffington: <...> check out the new "
Storage Blog at Microsoft" - where
some of our storage-saavy exec's, as well as other storage experts will weigh in.
The blog kicked off earlier this week with a
post from our General Manager for the Storage Solutions Division, Gabriel Broner - discussing some of the cool storage technologies that are included
in Windows Server 2008.
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