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Windows Live Essentials 2011 updated to Build 15.4.3555.308

Microsoft has released an update for Windows Live Essentials 2011. The announcement was made by Steven Abrahams, Lead Program Manager – Windows Live. “Today, we released an update for Windows Live Essentials 2011 in all 48 languages. This minor release includes [...]

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Connect Google account to Windows Live account

You can now connect your Google Account to your Windows Live account. By connecting your Google account to your Windows Live account, you will be able to view status updates, post status updates, integrate contacts directly to/from your Windows Live [...]

New Bing Linked Pages will help your friends find the real you

Microsoft has launched Bing Linked Pages, a new service that allows you to link your Facebook account with Bing Search. This lets your Facebook friends to find the pages about you on the Internet, when they search using Bing Search. [...]

Hotmail’s war on Graymail – Filters out over 100 million email

We have already seen Hotmail’s new features to fight graymail introduced a couple of months back. We have also seen how Microsoft has been improving its filtering technology, with great success in fighting Graymail. The Sweep and Schedule Cleanup tools, my favorite one’s are best way to [...]

Unblock and Recover a blocked or suspended Outlook or Microsoft account

At times you may, for some reason, find that your Windows Live Hotmail or Microsoft account has been suspended. This usually occurs when the Hotmail team that your mail account has been compromised or is being misused by someone to [...]

Attachments Suck! Use SkyDrive instead, says Microsoft

Microsoft has launched a new website ‘Attachments Suck’ to bring about the awareness, that it makes a lot more sense to use SkyDrive, instead of attaching files to your mail, the traditional way. Many of us may have faced situations [...]

Gmail vs Hotmail: Why Hotmail is better than Gmail

With Google Plus-ifying its search results and updating its Privacy Policy and Terms, many users are planning to make a move away from using many of its services. We have already seen some Google Search Alternatives. For Gmail too, there is an alternative [...]

Hotmail app for Kindle Fire released

Microsoft is making sure that its Hotmail users can access Hotmail from any device and also get a rich experience in the process. That’s why they are releasing apps for various device platforms, and they will continue to invest in it [...]

How to set up Automated Vacation Reply in Hotmail

If you have decided to go on a vacation and don’t have net access or you don’t want to be disturbed during vacation, Hotmail provides you with an option to send automated replies to all the mails received during your vacation period. [...]

Stay Organized with Hotmail’s Sweep and Schedule Cleanup features

In our last post, we saw how Hotmail improves Newsletter filtering and how it reduced Spam drastically, and how it also trained its SmartScreen technology to identify a specific kind of Graymail. Now although it categorizes such Graymail under various headings like [...]

Hotmail improves Newsletter filter – Categorizes over billion Newsletters automatically everyday!

We all have subscribed to some or the other Newsletters and we get them almost daily in our Inboxes. They can be anything – maybe product offers, discount coupons, deals, new arrivals, technology updates from various companies etc. So while [...]

SkyDrive Introduces New Features: Improved file management, sharing, Drag & drop, etc

Taking a cue from the feedback received from its users, SkyDrive has recently been upgraded to include a lot of new features and improvements. This has been a continuous process of improvement, as the number of users using SkyDrive to share and [...]

Hotmail updates its Sign-in page, Website and Help Center

As you know, Hotmail is gradually rolling out its new version with lots of new features, which we have been covering here. Hotmail has now also come up with a new Hotmail Sign in page, focusing on getting Hotmail on [...]

Hotmail’s mail attachment reminder, reminds you to attach forgotten attachments

The New Hotmail has become more intelligent ! It now not only provides some great features, but also reminds you of forgotten attachments which you were supposed to have attached, thereby saving you the embarrassment of re-sending a mail, this [...]

How to use Categories and Instant Actions; two new features in Hotmail

In our previous post, we saw how Hotmail’s new improved flag feature, pins mail to the top. Hotmail has also introduced two more new features - Instant Actions and Categories. Let us see how we can put them to use. There are [...]

Hotmail’s new improved flag feature pins mail to the top

Earlier we had a sneak peek at some of the new upcoming advanced features of Hotmail M2. Now that I have the new Hotmail, let us see the new and improved Flags feature. All Hotmail user at some point of time must have [...]

Over 2 million iOS 5 devices connected to Hotmail; adding 100K more daily!

Since the release of iOS 5, more than 2 million customers have connected Hotmail to iPods, iPhones or iPads and almost 100,000 new iOS 5 devices are being set up with Hotmail every day! Last year Hotmail added support for Exchange [...]

Download SnagIt screen capture plugin for Windows Live Writer

Screen captures are important for blogging. Many of you must be using Windows Live Writer for blogging and TechSmith’s Snagit Screen Capture Utility, and using its various options for editing the images. There is a plugin that integrates SnagIt into Windows Live Writer, [...]

How to play two audio tracks simultaneously in Windows Live Movie Maker

There are times when a need could arise where you had to put two background audio files, that run simultaneously in a movie prepared with Windows Live Movie Maker. You can add many audio tracks and can run them in sequence [...]

iOS 5 upgrade provides for a separate Hotmail option now!

If you have updated your iOS devices with the recent upgrade to iOS 5, you will notice that the iOS 5 Mail now provides a separate Hotmail option. Among the so many new features provided in iOS 5, this new [...]

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