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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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 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 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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13.02.2009Windows 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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09.02.2007How 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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07.05.2007Microsoft 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 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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14.08.2007Windows 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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02.10.2008Rumour: Microsoft readying free POP3 access for Hotmail
Microsoft currently offers POP3 access for $19.95 per year as part of its Hotmail Plus service. Rumours posted on several Windows Live forums this
week and Ars could indicate that POP3 access is about to drop for all hotmail users at no additional cost. Microsoft is expected to make some Windows
Live announcements at CES. There are rumours of the final versions of the Windows Live Client wave 3 applications being released and it's possible
that free POP3 access is one of the announcements.
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07.01.2009Windows Live Hotmail gets an update
Thanks to the feedback of thousands of users who reported scrolling issues with the recent release of Windows Live Hotmail, Microsoft has rolled out
another update to customers fixing the issue. Users can now revert back to the classic Hotmail scrolling interface by turning off their reading pane
(Options -> Reading pane settings -> Off). Microsoft has also added back the hotkey to allowing customers to open their messages in a new window by
simply holding down the Shift key and clicking on the message. Customers are also seeing a return of the Today page when they sign into their Windows
Live Mail account.
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20.12.2008Microsoft 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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24.06.2007Coming Soon - Windows Live Hotmail Wave 3
Windows Live Hotmail Wave 3 will be launched shortly. Whats new !?
Faster than ever. It'll be up to 70 percent faster to sign in and
see your e-mail. Of course, along with more speed, you'll get powerful technology that deflects spam and helps protect you against viruses and
scams.
Simpler, cleaner design. We're combining the classic and full versions of Hotmail, so you get access to everything Hotmail has to
offer. The reading pane will let you check out your e-mail without having to open it up.
Put more you in your e-mail. New themes and
colors will let you design the look of your inbox, so your personality can really shine through.
Closer to your contacts. Just start
typing in the "To" line and you'll get a choice of e-mail contacts that most closely match what you've typed. Plus, it'll be even easier
to e-mail groups of people.
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28.08.2008'Wave 3' of Windows Live Hotmail will offer IM
Microsoft has begun promoting the "Wave 3" Windows Live Hotmail update, promising a UI and functionality upgrade that will make the Web-based
mail client more like Outlook...
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27.08.2008The anatomy of a Hotmail phishing attack
Phishing schemes have become increasingly more common these days and, as we have seen over the past couple of days, can come as a big shock to the
general public who are not aware of the concept of these scams and therefore not aware when they are falling for one. As has been confirmed today,
phishing attacks are wide-spread across many different webmail services - such as Hotmail, Gmail and Yahoo! Mail - but they can also be designed to
fool users of social networking websites and even trick people into handing their bank details over to complete strangers.
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07.10.2009Hotmail Lead Program Manager's email compromised
Kip Kniskern: Wow don't really know what to say about this. Omar Shahine, a Lead Program Manager for Hotmail, who
we've
interviewed and had numerous conversations with about Hotmail, has apparently had his email account hijacked.
Omar posted this tonight...
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