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What you want to know about Hotmail to Outlook.com automatic forced upgrade

With Outlook.com leaving its Preview status, I suppose it was just a matter of time that Microsoft would slowly start upgrading all Hotmail users to Outlook.com. The automatic upgradation of Hotmail to Outlook has already started. Microsoft plans to upgrade [...]

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How to create a new outlook.com mail ID

Microsoft has just launched Outlook.com – a completely re-imagined personal mail service. If you have already upgraded your existing Hotmail account to it – or registered at Outlook.com for a new account, you may be happy to know that you can [...]

Windows Live and Hotmail to get a brand new Metro look

Looks like Hotmail is all set to get a major revamp. Microsoft appears to be planning to not only rebrand Windows Live ID to Microsoft Account, but also give Hotmail a clean new minimalistic Metro UI. LiveSide was able to [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Sneak Peek at some of the new upcoming advanced features of Hotmail M2

Hotmail keeps improving on its solid foundation providing faster performance achieved by caching emails, pre-loading messages, asynchronous operations, a virtually unlimited storage and several other innovative new features like: Spam protection: Combating the spam aggressively, Hotmail reduced the Spam reaching [...]

How to set up Hotmail on iPad / iPhone / iPod Touch with POP3

Earlier we had seen how to set up Windows Live Hotmail on your iOS devices using ActiveSync. In this post we will use POP3 to set up Hotmail on an iOS device. Hotmail on iPhone, iPad To do so, follow these [...]

Hotmail gets a new Storage System – making it still faster!

Hotmail receives billions of email messages each day and these have to be stored safely and has to be made readily available efficiently. Hotmail’s cloud based storage system supports over one billion mailboxes and hundreds of petabytes of data (one [...]

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