All the stories tagged with: hotmail
Hotmail password bug fixed
04/27/2012, Microsoft has been swift to work on a fix for the Hotmail password bug which if left untreated, would have enabled a hacker to reset the password for a Hotmail account, locking out the account’s owner in the process while [...]
Microsoft picks up 100k users each day thanks to iOS 5
11/03/2011, Rewind the clock to more than a decade ago, and it would be pretty hard to imagine that Apple and Microsoft would ever find any common ground with one another. I guess time really does heal all wounds, and it [...]
Official Hotmail app finally on Android
10/03/2011, While most Android users are using Gmail as their default email client, there are still a number of people out there who still use Hotmail, but they’ve had no way to check it beyond using some third party app or [...]
Microsoft Hotmail, Office 365 and Live knocked out, restored
09/09/2011, When everything is running fine and dandy, you feel as though you are king of the world, but throw a spanner in the works and things start to end up being horrendous – even more so in the tech world, [...]
Developers can now integrate Hotmail across Android and iOS platforms
07/22/2011, If you’re still hanging on to your Hotmail accounts from back in the day, or perhaps you’re a Microsoft Live user, then you will be pleased to know that Microsoft is providing app developers the tools that will make integration [...]
Hotmail to roll out new features to combat spam and account hacking
07/18/2011, You have probably received weird sounding emails from your friends before, and for those who us who are more suspicious in nature, we think “spam” and don’t bother opening it. Spam and account hacking is not new when it comes [...]
Russia Federal Security Service to ban Skype, Hotmail and Gmail?
04/08/2011, In the latest case of paranoia in the government, it appears that Russia has now caught the bug. The Russian Security service has been reported to have called for a ban on Skype, Hotmail and Gmail citing those services as [...]
Hotmail to offer disposable email addresses
02/04/2011, Microsoft has just announced that they will be offering temporary email addresses to their Hotmail users. Targeted at subscribers who need an email address just to sign up for a forum or some online service temporarily, this service will allow [...]
Mystery of disappearing Hotmail emails explained
01/07/2011, We recently mentioned that many Hotmail users had their emails disappear over the New Year and now Microsoft has given an official explanation to the situation on the Windows Team Blog. Apparently the issue was caused by an error with [...]
Hotmail users’ emails disappear over the New Year
01/03/2011, This probably isn’t the scenario that many Hotmail users wanted to wake up to in 2011, but reports are in that many Hotmail users have discovered that their emails have disappeared from their accounts, while some more severe cases include [...]
Microsoft Improves Hotmail Security With Mobile Phone Authentication
09/28/2010, In a move that is similar to Google’s recent increase in security for Gmail, Microsoft has introduced a new security feature to Hotmail that makes it harder to hijack accounts and making it easier for users to recover their accounts [...]
Hotmail To Get Exchange ActiveSync On Monday
08/26/2010, In a recent interview, Microsoft’s Dharmesh Mehta mentioned that Exchange ActiveSync will be one of the new features that will be added to Hotmail come Monday. In simpler terms, this means that Hotmail users will be getting push email on [...]
The New Hotmail User Interface Is Now Available For Everybody
08/04/2010, Considering the number of Hotmail users around the globe, it’s taken some time to fully rollout, but the folks over at Microsoft should be quite happy to announce that they’ve completed the rollout of the new Hotmail user interface to [...]
