Windows Live Mail, Live Writer & Messenger 8.5 Beta
Microsoft has announced the availability of 3 Windows Live products today, all of which are beta.
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31.5.2007 Windows Live Mail 5 is Live
Well, almost. It's coming very soon, we promise. But for those who can't wait, here's a sneak peak at all the new features for Windows Live Mail Beta "M5" (M5 is geek speak for Milestone 5).
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1.3.2006 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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.
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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
Vodafone to guarantee BlackBerry service in the UK
In light of the recent string of outages of RIM's e-mail system for BlackBerry users, Vodafone UK has announced that it will be using a third
party's solution to prevent future BlackBerry outages, and package it as a premium service...
betanews.com - 19.02.2008
About those Windows Live Messenger outages¦
Mary Jo Foley: In case you were one of the many Windows Live Messenger users affected by the recent outages of Microsofts consumer IM service earlier
this week, heres an update on what happened.
On Thursday September 11, I like many of my IM contacts around the world couldnt
sign into Live Messenger for a number of hours. Courtesy of a Microsoft spokeswoman, this is Microsofts statement on the disruption...
winbeta.org - 13.09.2008
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
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
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.
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neowin.net - 01.02.2009
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
Windows Live Strategy Inches Forward, Slowly
Microsoft is continuing to
flesh out its Windows Live
strategy, on Wednesday
releasing beta versions of
Windows Live Photo Gallery and
Windows Live Folders. The
additions will join Windows
Live Mail Desktop, Windows
Live Writer, and a number of
other applications as part of
the Windows Live Suite...
betanews.com - 28.06.2007
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
What do Xbox Live problems say about Microsofts back-end infrastructure?
Whether you think the recently proposed class action lawsuit over Xbox
Live service holiday outages is crazy or justified, there are undeniable problems with Microsoft’s back-end Live infrastructure that
Microsoft needs to address.
Microsoft recently offered its 10 million Xbox Live subscribers a free arcade game as payback for holiday 2007 service outages
(or, as Microsoft officials preferred to call them “intermittent Xbox Live issues”), which the
company attributed to an insufficient number of back-end servers.
But as a posting this past weekend by Windows Connected
contributor Matt Freestone, the Xbox Live outages seemingly still aren’t over...
winbeta.org - 08.01.2008
Xbox Live holiday outages prompts class action lawsuit
Microsoft's Xbox Live network suffered some outages over the
holidays, and the company yesterday offered subscribers a free arcade download
as an apology. But that wasn't enough for three Texans, who this afternoon filed a class action lawsuit against the company, alleging breach of
contract.
The complaint describes the December outages -- chronicled on blogs and elsewhere -- that kept people from "accessing
online play for several weeks. ... Xbox Live continues to deny subscribers access and has even issued apologies for their failure to correct server
problems."
winbeta.org - 06.01.2008
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 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
iTunes, activation outages are rendering new and old iPhones problematic
BetaNews correspondents in Maryland and Michigan are seeing first-hand problems as a result of significant system outages affecting both AT&T and
iTunes. Many buyers still can't activate their phones...
betanews.com - 11.07.2008
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
iTunes, activation outages are rendering new and old iPhones inoperable
UPDATED BetaNews correspondents in Maryland and Michigan are seeing first-hand problems as a result of significant system outages affecting
both AT&T and iTunes. Many buyers still can't activate their phones hours later...
betanews.com - 12.07.2008
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
XM Experiences Significant Outage
XM is suffering scattered
outages across North America,
several news sources reported
on Monday. According to
subscribers, the outages have
affected many subscribers in
the eastern half of the
continent...
betanews.com - 22.05.2007
Windows Live 4 developers
The vast majority of the Internet users has already been in touch with some of the tools and services that are grouped under the Windows Live label.
Services like Live Mail (which includes Hotmail and MSN Mail), Live Messenger (MSN Messenger), Live Spaces, Live Search, Live IDs, and Virtual Earth
(maps.live.com) are daily used by hundreds million of people.
Windows Live services are in continuous evolution and new services
are added regularly, like the new Live Skydrive , Silverlight Streaming, Live OneCare, Live Expo,¦
winbeta.org - 21.04.2008
Microsoft Office Live Small Biz suffers outage
Microsoft Corp. loyalists could be forgiven for feeling a little smug after all of the publicity over outages and lost e-mails at rivals' online
services, Apple Inc.'s MobileMe and Google Inc.'s Gmail.
Microsoft, it turns out, isn't invulnerable. Some users of Microsoft's Office Live Small Business have also reported
intermittent e-mail outages, according to interviews and postings at discussion forums for the Web service, which is
used by more than a million small companies.
Through a spokeswoman, Microsoft acknowledged Tuesday that a "brief, isolated"
e-mail outage occurred last Friday.
winbeta.org - 27.08.2008
Yahoo apologizes for Cyber Monday commerce outages
One very non-economic reason for small businesses perhaps receiving less of the glory from Cyber Monday comes from Yahoo, whose Merchant Solutions
hosting service suffered severe outages throughout the day...
betanews.com - 28.11.2007
