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The real reasons for the Hotmail & Outlook.com outage on March 12th

VasudevG@TWC — Thu, 14 Mar 2013 13:37:00 +0000

Yesterday there were some reports of people not able to access services from Hotmail, Outlook.com and SkyDrive. That was due to outage of Hotmail and other services. And Microsoft now has provided the details about this outage and tendered apology to its users for the same. In our earlier post we had reported about Outlook.com […]

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Microsoft is offering Outlook Plus or Hotmail Plus as an Ad-free experience

SusannahLindsay@TWCN — Sat, 23 Feb 2013 12:09:57 +0000

Not that there are many ads or distractions in Outlook.com, but if you want a completely distraction-free Outlook.com experience, you can now get it. Microsoft has announced an Ad-free Outlook and Hotmail plan that will give you an ads free experience in Hotmail and Outlook. Not only that, but your mail account will now never […]

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Hotmail & Outlook can be hijacked using Cookie Handling Vulnerability

HemantSaxena@TWCN — Sat, 15 Dec 2012 17:45:36 +0000

Hotmail and Outlook, the popular email service from Microsoft is reported to be susceptible to hijacking using ‘stolen’ Cookies. A cookie handling vulnerability has been discovered that can allow cybercriminals to gain access to the accounts of Hotmail and Outlook users. Hotmail and Outlook Accounts Susceptible to Hijacking Mohit Kumar, Founder and Editor-in-chief of the Hacker News along […]

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Automatic upgradation of Hotmail to Outlook.com has started

VasudevG@TWC — Tue, 25 Sep 2012 13:27:00 +0000

Today as I signed into my Hotmail account using Hotmail.com, it was nice to see that my account had automatically upgraded to Outlook.com. Since the last two weeks Hotmail users were getting notifications mail that the upgrade will take place soon by next week. They had received this mail few days back from Outlook team informing […]

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Windows Phone gets center stage in the Hotmail sign-in page

VasudevG@TWC — Wed, 07 Mar 2012 03:49:00 +0000

In one of our earlier posts titled Hotmail updates its Sign-in page, Website and Help Center, we had posted that in the new Hotmail sign-in page, iPhone was given more attention as over 2 million iOS 5 devices are conneted to Hotmail and 100K more being added daily. Now the Hotmail sign-in page has been again updated […]

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Hotmail decides to take Yahoo Mail head on; launches new website

VasudevG@TWC — Wed, 20 Apr 2011 19:49:04 +0000

With tons of new features in the new Hotmail, the Hotmail team is committed to making Hotmail the world’s best email service. Microsoft has now decided to aggressively market the Hotmail brand and launched a new website has been launched for the same. There are no official statistics available for the exact number of users […]

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The Great Race of the E-Mail Service Providers

AnandKhanse@TWC — Sat, 10 Oct 2009 14:29:59 +0000

Google’s Gmail has surpassed AOL as the third most visited e-mail service in the U.S. and is poised to pass Windows Live Hotmail in about seven months. Between July 2008 and July 2009, Gmail’s number of unique monthly visitors in the U.S. increased from 25.3 million to 36.9 million, according to ComScore, via InformationWeek. With […]

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