Windows Live Mail M6 is here
They are currently putting up the new login page at mail.live.com, but you can log in via hotmail.com as usual.
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16.5.2006 Windows Live Mail M9
As we were expected, Windows Live Mail was upgraded to M9 (Milestone 9) last night.
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24.1.2007 Windows Live Mail Beta Refreshed
Microsoft on Wednesday began rolling out Milestone 4 of its new Windows Live Mail beta, formerly known by the code-name Kahuna. The update adds support for Web browsers beyond IE6 and implements a number of new features such as spell checking and resizable window panes.
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1.12.2005 E-Mail About Windows Live Messenger Really A Trojan
Helsinki-based F-Secure told users to ignore instant messages with the subject head "MSN Messenger 8 Working BETA" that go on to claim that "Messenger 8 BETA has been leaked!"
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28.12.2005 Sneak into the Windows Live Mail Beta
Just before the end of 2005, a simple trick was discovered that turns your Hotmail into the Windows Live Mail Beta without the need of an official invitation. The "exploit", which allows almost everyone to actually test and use Microsoft's nextgen e-mail service, has been posted all over the web and has still not been fixed yet.
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5.1.2006 Windows Live Mail M6 Coming Soon
The Live Mail Team gave us a pretty extensive update for Windows Live Mail as they near releasing Milestone 6 (M6) to Beta Testers.
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6.5.2006 Sign up for Windows Live Mail Beta
Fast and simple e-mail that makes it easy to read, send and organize your messages. The ?beta? part means it?s a work in progress, so we need your input to make sure it?s built right.
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6.5.2006 New Windows Live E-mail addresses Coming Soon!
After months of wait and an endless loop of questions to Microsoft, the company finally decided what e-mail addresses it will use for future Windows Live ID accounts.
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15.6.2006 The Future of Windows Live Mail Desktop
There hasn't been much news on Windows Live Mail desktop since 2006, with a minor update being released in February.
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13.3.2007 E-mail, photo programs stripped from Windows 7
Microsoft has decided that Windows 7 won't include built-in programs for e-mail, photo editing, and movie making, as was done with Windows Vista, CNET News.com has learned.
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23.9.2008 Windows Live Mail Desktop Beta Released
Microsoft confirmed Wednesday that it has released the Windows Live Mail Desktop Beta to select beta testers and partners.
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30.3.2006 Microsoft Refreshes Windows Live Mail Beta
Windows Live Mail, the successor to Hotmail currently in limited beta testing, was given a facelift Tuesday in what Microsoft calls the "M6" release of the service. Notable additions include support for Firefox, mail signatures and vastly improved performance.
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17.5.2006 New 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.
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3.6.2006 New Build of Windows Live Mail Desktop Released
In this new build you’ll see some major improvements! Right off the bat,
the most noticeable change will likely be the updates we’ve made to our User
Interface.
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18.8.2006 Windows Live Mail Desktop Build 1172
The Windows Live Mail Desktop team has just announced yet another refresh of the increasingly popular mail reading application. This is the first refresh in over a month, and brings an outstanding number of improvements.
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17.11.2006 Windows Mail bug may expose Vista users
A possible security vulnerability in Windows Mail could let attackers run applications on PCs running Vista.
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24.3.2007 Open Beta Invitation for Windows Live Mail Desktop
We’ve finally done it! Our ‘little’ project to bring you the next generation consumer mail application is going massively public. As of today (actually we slipped it out quietly last week or so) we are instituting a hassle-free sign up for the Mail Desktop beta.
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27.7.2006 Fake Windows patch e-mail leads to Trojan horse attack
Messages insisting that users install a just-released Microsoft Corp. security update are bogus and actually lead to a site that plants malicious code on PCs, several security companies warned today.
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28.6.2007 Who's reading your mail?
Almost 450,000 requests were made to monitor people’s telephone calls, e-mails and post by secret agencies and other authorised bodies in just over a year, the spying watchdog said yesterday.
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21.2.2007 Windows Live Mail 2009 14.0.8089.0726 Update Detailed
The past week, Microsoft released a collection of updates for all the clients under the Windows Live Essentials brand umbrella but failed to provide details on what the refreshes brought to the table.
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24.8.2009 Microsoft's Not the Only One Doing Mobile Mail
The same day the beta invites started going out for Windows Live Mail Mobile,
Google launched Gmail Mobile. So far, Gmail Mobile is supporting relatively few cell phones and PDAs and only those in the U.S.. But wider coverage is coming soon, Google claims. And you can get
Gmail Mobile on your Blackberry, too. And speaking of Google, it's sounding like Microsoft's nemesis bested Microsoft in the contest for whose search engine would power Google search, going forward. As part of that deal,
Google reportedly will invest $1 billion in AOL, in exchange for a five percent stake.
microsoft - comments - 19.12.2005
Microsoft Mail Beta Signup
We think you're going to really like the clean new look and other features -- at least we hope so! We need your feedback to make sure we are doing this thing right.
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Microsoft's Web Mail Gets Overhaul
The Hotmail millions (Microsoft reports 200 million users) know and perhaps love could be replaced. For the last seven months, Microsoft has been beta testing a radically different Web mail client, one that makes Hotmail's largely standard HTML interface look like yesterday's news. Kahuna supports drag and drop, right-clicking, multi-select and, in general, a much more Outlook-like look and feel.
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New Web Mail: More Polished, Powerful
Microsoft and Yahoo are poised to make Web-based e-mail more powerful than ever with updates that bring a desktop-style interface to their respective Web mail offerings. We tested betas (currently invitation-only) of Windows Live Mail and Yahoo Mail, and also looked at an open-source newcomer called Zimbra. All three apps use an increasingly popular programming technique called Ajax (Asynchronous JavaScript and XML) to improve on standard Web mail and even Google's Gmail.
microsoft - comments - 27.11.2005
'You've Got Mail' -- and Ads, Courtesy of Microsoft
It was only a matter of time before advertising found its way onto the desktop.
Microsoft is releasing Active Search today, an automated function that scans users' e-mails and then displays potential search terms related to that e-mail, along with text-based paid search ads.
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Yahoo! Mail Notifier 1.0.0.12
A simple to use Firefox extension that can notify you when you have new mail.
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30GB Web Mail Into Beta testing
A new web mail service launched today promising to bring users an email inbox of 30gb.
30gigs.com started off with the idea of creating an "All in one" site for the webmaster and avid computer users. According to the sites "about us" page, combining personal file storage, GD2 signatures and anonymous email all in one service, which would be free.
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Microsoft tool 'snarfs' up unwanted e-mail
Microsoft Corp.'s research arm yesterday released a free tool to help users slog through e-mail messages in their inbox in the order of importance, according to one of the researchers who developed the software.
Created within Microsoft Research, the Social Network and Relationship Finder, or SNARF, is an application that uses the same database as a user's e-mail client to count the number of times users send and receive e-mails from people, said A.J. Brush, a researcher in the community technologies group at Microsoft Research.
microsoft - comments - 2.12.2005
Microsoft Works on Comcast E-Mail Problem
Microsoft said Friday that some people who use its Hotmail and MSN e-mail services are not receiving e-mail sent from Comcast accounts and other Internet service providers.
Brooke Richardson, a group product manager with Microsoft's MSN online division, said the problem appears to be due to an increase in e-mail volumes, which it is attributed in part to the Sober Internet worm.
microsoft - comments - 5.12.2005
Microsoft Sued Over Mobile E-Mail Access
Microsoft is facing a new lawsuit today from telecommunications provider Visto claiming that the software giant "...infringed upon multiple patents Visto holds regarding proprietary technology that provides enterprises and consumers with mobile access to their e-mail and other data."
microsoft - comments - 16.12.2005
Live Mail Desktop Makes Beta
Debut
Microsoft has begun a limited
beta test of its upcoming
Windows Live Mail Desktop,
BetaNews has learned. The
offering is intended to
provide users of Windows Live
Mail and Hotmail with
client-side access to e-mail
services. Such a feature was
previously only available to
paid subscribers...
betanews.com - 30.03.2006
The Future of Windows Live Mail Desktop
There hasn't been much news
on Windows Live Mail desktop
since 2006, with a minor
update being released in
February. With most Windows
Live watchers expecting a v1
release at the beginning of
the year, many are wondering
what is happening to the
product. Dare Obasanjo even
joked at a rename to Outlook
Express Live.
It seems to be that
Microsoft is rethinking its
mail client strategy, with the
belief that two distinct free
mail clients for Windows Vista
(Windows Mail and Windows Live
Mail desktop) is not the way
to move forward.
Instead, Mail
desktop will evolve to become
an enhanced Windows Mail
client, which when installed
will replace Vista's Windows
Mail. For those familiar with
Mail desktop there will not be
a huge change however for
those using Windows Mail they
will benefit from the
integration of Live services.
While the
name and details of the new
product are unconfirmed,
hopefully we should soon see a
beta of Windows Live Mail for
Vista.
jcxp.net - 13.03.2007
Chrome masks as Safari to fool Windows Live Mail
According to Google's Chrome Releases blog, Chrome-users no longer need to go out of their way to make Windows Live Mail/Hotmail work. In
addition to providing important security updates, Google's most recent version of Chrome--1.0.154.46--makes it easy for followers to use Windows
Live Mail. For some reason, Windows Live Mail does not work properly on Chrome, unless it thinks it is some other browser, such as Apple's Safari.
Previously, Chrome-users who had wanted to be able to use Windows Live Mail would have to switch the user-agent manually, but now the browser will
identify itself properly as "Chrome" for most normal sites but as "Safari" for URLs ending with mail.live.com.
Read full story.....
neowin.net - 01.02.2009
Microsoft Upgrades Windows Live Mail
Although it has still yet to
replace the aging Hotmail
system, Microsoft's new,
AJAX-enabled Windows Live Mail
service received a minor
upgrade yesterday, reaching
Milestone 9. The M9 version of
Live Mail brings a number of
new features, including full
compatibility with Firefox
2.0...
betanews.com - 24.01.2007
Microsoft Building New Free
Mail Client
Internet Explorer isn't the
only application to enjoy a
resurgence in Windows Vista --
Microsoft is readying a new
desktop e-mail client that
will be integrated into
Windows Live and eventually
replace Outlook Express.
Dubbed Windows Live Mail
Desktop, the product is
currently in beta testing...
betanews.com - 11.03.2006
Microsoft Opens New Mail
Client Beta
Microsoft has opened up the
beta program for its new
advertising supported e-mail
client that integrates with
the company's Windows Live
initiative. All users can now
sign up to test Windows Live
Mail Desktop without needing
an invitation...
betanews.com - 28.07.2006
AOL Web Mail gets updated
This morning, AOL launched its latest version of Web Mail, which gives users the ability to tailor their Web Mail window with gadgets from the myAOL
Gallery, and integrate their mailboxes with third-party mail services like Yahoo and Gmail. Additionally, the AOL Mail Synchronization feature that has been in beta testing since November has been added to the completed feature list.
Rounding out today's update is the ability for users to skin their AOL Web Mail page, similar to Windows Live Home and iGoogle...
betanews.com - 22.01.2009
New Microsoft E-Mail Client
Gets Ads
Microsoft is embedding
advertising in its new e-mail
client software known as
Windows Live Mail Desktop, the
company disclosed late Friday.
The feature, known as Active
Search, will display text
links based on a message's
content, much like Google does
with its Gmail service on the
Web...
betanews.com - 06.06.2006
Windows Live Mail sign-in UI
Updated
The sign-in site for Windows
Live Mail has been updated to
the new Live ID
interface.
As
Trevin stated on his blog, in
order to see the new
interface, you must be a Live
Mail user and sign in through
mail.live.com instead of
hotmail.com. This sign-in site
is also compatible with the
Windows Live Sign-in
Assistant.
Also, I just found out that
@live.com e-mail addresses are
coming. If you go to
ideas.live.com, and scroll
down to Windows Live Mail
Desktop Beta, click Get
Updates, and it mentions on
the following page, "You'll
need an MSN, MSN Hotmail,
Live.com e-mail address to use
this service."
jcxp.net - 03.06.2006
Windows Live Mail Desktop
Invites Sent!
At the great surprise of
numerous users, Microsoft sent
public invites for its Windows
Live Mail Desktop Beta program
a few minutes ago.
For the record,
Windows Live Mail Desktop
offers the following
features:
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You'll also be able to read
and manage your RSS and
newsgroup content as easily as
you get e-mail.
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Even when you're offline,
you'll be able to sort and
compose e-mail.
- You
can get e-mail from multiple
e-mail accounts
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Putting photos in your e-mail
= easy
- and many more
advantages, such as Active
Search
The
program offers the sleek new
Windows Live UI, named Flare,
throughout the application. It
also seems to automatically
add any beta-tester to the
Windows Live Mail Beta
program, probably because
it's a prerequisite for using
the application.
jcxp.net - 26.06.2006
Microsoft Debuts E-Mail
Hosting Service
Free Web mail with massive
storage may be all the rage,
but Microsoft is taking a
different approach with a new
Windows Live service: bring
your own domain. Users can
point their own domain name at
Microsoft and take advantage
of the company's
infrastructure and online
e-mail interface...
betanews.com - 22.11.2005
Microsoft Refreshes Live Mail
Beta
Windows Live Mail, the
successor to Hotmail currently
in limited beta testing, was
given a facelift Tuesday in
what Microsoft calls the
"M6" release of the
service. Notable additions
include support for Firefox,
mail signatures and vastly
improved performance...
betanews.com - 17.05.2006
E-mail Scam Using .ANI Exploit Proves a Point
PERSPECTIVE Just days
after BetaNews responded to a
reader inquiry about the
Windows Animated Cursor
exploit by hypothetically
suggesting a phishing site
could e-mail .ANI files
disguised as revealing
pictures of celebrity Britney
Spears, researchers at
WebSense Security Labs
discovered an apparent e-mail
spamming source which does
precisely that...
betanews.com - 05.04.2007
Windows 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...
betanews.com - 09.02.2007
AIM Now for Vista, AOL Web Mail
AOL on Wednesday released the
final version of AIM 6.1,
which primarily brings support
for Windows Vista, as well as
announcing a new beta of AOL
Web Mail that integrates AIM.
Users will be able to conduct
AIM conversations directly
from their Web-based AOL Mail
interface.
Photo:
View the
new AIM, AOL Mail
integration..
betanews.com - 29.03.2007
E-mail Scam Using .ANI Exploit Proves BetaNews' Point Too Well
Just days after BetaNews
responded to a reader inquiry
about the Windows Animated
Cursor exploit by
hypothetically suggesting a
phishing site could e-mail
.ANI files disguised as
revealing pictures of
celebrity Britney Spears,
researchers at WebSense
Security Labs discovered an
apparent e-mail spamming
source which does precisely
that...
betanews.com - 05.04.2007
Yahoo Invites Users to Try
Mail Beta
Yahoo on Thursday rolled out
the beta version of its Mail
product to all users, inviting
them to switch to the new AJAX
interface that acts more like
a desktop e-mail client than
Web site. The Yahoo! Mail
revision adds drag and drop
organization and instant
preview pane...
betanews.com - 15.09.2006
Windows Live Mail Launches in Holland
While it has yet to publicly
launch the service in the
United States, Windows Live
Mail made its official debut
over the weekend in The
Netherlands, Microsoft
announces. The service, which
is the successor to Hotmail,
provides users with @live.nl
addresses...
betanews.com - 14.11.2006
Windows Live Mail Beta
Refreshed
Microsoft on Wednesday began
rolling out Milestone 4 of its
new Windows Live Mail beta,
formerly known by the
code-name Kahuna. The update
adds support for Web browsers
beyond IE6 and implements a
number of new features such as
spell checking and resizable
window panes...
betanews.com - 01.12.2005
Mail Desktop to become Mail
Center
Unsurprisingly given
yesterday's announcement that
the Windows Live Search client
will be called Windows Live
Search Center, Mail Desktop is
to follow suit and become
Windows Live Mail Center.
Ignoring the
fact that the spelling is
americanised and will
doubtlessly annoy millions of
non-US users, the name
doesn't describe the function
of the product nearly as well
as those of Search Center and
Safety Center, despite their
blandness. Maybe keeping users
unaware of the new RSS
integration is a blessing in
disguise though; much like
Live.com some serious work
needs to be done turning these
products into usable rss
aggregators.
jcxp.net - 13.07.2006
