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New Hotmail Arrives!

Sarah Perez — Wed, 16 Jun 2010 14:34:00 GMT

The updated version of Windows Live Hotmail is rolling out as of now to customers worldwide. Some users may find they receive all the new features at once while others will see certain features, but not all new features, at least at first.

For example, the US, Canada, the UK and Ireland will be first to get the Office integration features available via the new Office Web Apps service which allows you to create, edit and collaborate using web-based versions of the Microsoft Office software in the cloud. In the new Hotmail, you can open attachments with Office Web Apps, while right in Hotmail.

If you’re not seeing any of the new features just yet, hang on, they’ll arrive soon enough. And everyone will be upgraded by summer’s end, promises the Windows Live team via blog post.

Other features in the new Hotmail, as we’ve mentioned before, include 10 GB attachment limits, inbox clutter reduction tools like the new “Sweep” menu, better spam filters, and “quick views” that show you flagged email, those with photos, those with documents, shipping updates, etc., the ability to email photo slideshows, inline video viewing, improved security, mobile services, and more.

Handy List of Hotmail Keyboard Shortcuts

Sarah Perez — Tue, 25 May 2010 15:06:00 GMT

I just stumbled across a bookmark-worthy page for all you Hotmail users. The Life Rocks blog posted a great big list of keyboard shortcuts that work in Windows Live Hotmail.

These shortcuts let you navigate through Hotmail completely mouse-free, something which not only speeds up the time you spend in your email, but can also help those affected with carpal tunnel, a medical problem that makes using a computer mouse painful. (Trust me, I know).

I couldn’t help myself, I had to re-share this handy list. The shortcuts are, as follows:

Delete a message – Delete
Create a new message- Ctrl+N
Send a message – Ctrl+Enter
Open a message – Ctrl+Shift+O
Print a message – Ctrl+Shift+P
Reply to a message – Ctrl+R
Reply all to a message- Ctrl+Shift+R
Forward a message – Ctrl+Shift+F
Save a draft message – Ctrl+S
Mark a message as junk – Ctrl+Shift+J
Mark a message as read – Ctrl+Q
Mark a message as unread – Ctrl+U
Move to a folder – Ctrl+Shift+V
Open the next message – Ctrl+.
Open the previous message – Ctrl+,
Close a message – Esc
Search your e-mail messages – /
Check spelling – F7
Select all – S then A
Deselect all – S then N
Go to the inbox – F then I
Go to your Drafts folder – F then D
Go to your Sent folder- F then S

One-time Passwords, SSL and More: New Hotmail Focuses on Security

Sarah Perez — Mon, 24 May 2010 14:44:00 GMT

In the upcoming version of Hotmail, the free, web-based email service from Microsoft, there will be a greater emphasis on security. In addition to the numerous, new spam-fighting features previously announced, the new Hotmail will also offer additional security features, reports SC Magazine after confirming the changes with a Microsoft spokesperson.

For example, users will be able to associate a Hotmail account with their mobile phone so when a password is forgotten or lost, it can be sent via text message. That makes the password reset procedure more secure as only you have access to your phone.

Also new is a “one-time password” option. If you’re worried about security, like when using a public computer that may or may not be infected malware, this single-use password lets you into your account but can never be used again.

Plus, from now on, the entire Hotmail session will be encrypted via SSL, not just the login procedure.

Finally, inside your inbox, emails from “trusted senders” (those from legitimate institutions and businesses) will be visually highlighted with a new “safety logo” as being trustworthy.

These changes are just a small part of the upcoming revamp to the refreshed service. You can read about all the new features here.

Hotmail to Offer 5 New Spam-Fighting Tools

Sarah Perez — Mon, 24 May 2010 14:44:00 GMT

The soon-to-launch version of Hotmail has been totally revamped, as we’ve already told you. But now a new post from the main Windows team blog shares more details on some very specific and critical improvements they’ve made to Hotmail’s spam filtering techniques.

In the upcoming version, Hotmail will launch several new technologies that will help further reduce spam, informs the post.

These include more advanced IP and content filtering, spammer infrastructure detection and destruction, time-traveling filters, personalized spam filtering and tagging.

Because Hotmail is the largest webmail worldwide, they have more info on bad IPs which has allowed the first improvement to take place. But it was items #2 and #3 that caught my eye. “Spammer infrastructure destruction?” What? Is that some new Hotmail superpower? Apparently, it’s when the spam filter looks at the URLs contained in the spam emails themselves to identify the source URL of the spam. This is then blocked by URL name and IP. That means spammers actually have to move to a new IP to continue to operate.

The time-traveling filter is also really interesting. Even though not all spammers are caught the instant they start sending out spam, the time-traveling filter can go back to your inbox to remove spam after the spammer has been identified, even if it wasn’t caught at the time of arrival. That’s like having someone clean out your inbox for you – nice! (Now if only they’d help me respond to these emails).

The last 2 items help to make spam fighting more personal. What Hotmail call junk, you may consider an important piece of mail, for example. With artificial intelligence, Hotmail will let you personalize your own spam settings. and if a piece of mail has been previously tagged “safe” or “junk,” it can tell you that too.

An All-New Hotmail is Coming!

Sarah Perez — Thu, 20 May 2010 15:16:00 GMT

Hotmail is getting a major makeover, as you may have heard. Microsoft just announced the new version of the web-based email service, used by 360 million worldwide. Among the new features: threaded conversations, automatic filters, social networking integration, Office Web Apps integration, and even a tool that helps you achieve “inbox zero.” (At last!)

When you first login to the new Hotmail, you’re taken to a homepage that highlights messages from your contacts, social networking updates and flagged email. You can also optionally sign into Messenger via this page. From here, you can quickly jump to a filtered view of your inbox where only your important email is displayed (from contacts, flagged, etc.). Then when you’re ready to deal with the rest, you can click on “view all.”

Another helpful feature for dealing with email overload is the new “sweep” button. This lets you clear out what Microsoft calls “graymail” (not whitelisted or blacklisted) from your inbox. I call this “HAM” myself, a play on “SPAM,” meaning stuff you signed up for, but definitely not urgent mail. This includes things like newsletters and communications from various services, for example. With “sweep,” you no longer have to set up complicated filters and rules. You can just sweep these messages from your inbox, even telling Hotmail to do this automatically for you from now on by checking a checkbox.

Still another great feature involves photos. Instead of “attaching” photos to an email, they can be uploaded to SkyDrive and transformed into an online album that can then be shared via email. By doing this, you can send up to 200 photos, each up to 50 MB in size at once, without clogging the recipient's inbox. Photos you receive – either like this or via external services like flickr – can be displayed in a slideshow format with just a click.

Office Web Apps are also integrated into the new Hotmail. Like photos, files can “be attached” to a message via SkyDrive, again allowing you to stop worrying about attachment sizes. And when you get a document, you can just open it up using Office Web Apps, right in your Hotmail. Like photos, you can send up 200 Office documents of up to 50 MB each per email.

There’s a lot more too – like how videos from Hulu and YouTube play right in your inbox, push capabilities for email on mobile phones, mobile-optimized sites for feature phones, full-session SSL, and more.

You can read more about the new Hotmail here. The rollout will begin sometime mid-summer.

Now You Can Get All Your Mail in Hotmail

Sarah Perez — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 20:50:00 GMT

One of the most critical features needed to get people to switch over from one email account to another is the ability to still easily access email from their old accounts. Sometimes, this can be accomplished by forwarding the old account (if that’s an option of your webmail service), other times it can be done by import. Now (at last!), Windows Live Hotmail has added a feature that lets you import other email account into your Hotmail.

For users in the US, Canada, and Brazil, you can now import any POP-enabled email account – a list which happens to include Yahoo! Mail Plus, AOL Mail, and Gmail. (The feature was already available in the UK, France, Netherlands, Italy, Spain, Japan, and Germany).

To access this option, click on “Add an e-mail account” on the left side of you inbox. Type in the email address and password for the account you want to forward then click “Next.” Choose where you want the messages to go (for example, a separate folder instead of your inbox) and click “Save.”

In order for this to work, POP has to be turned on in the POP-enabled email service you’re adding. This is usually found in your webmail settings.

Windows Live Überblick

Lori Grosland — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 08:52:00 GMT

Vor ein paar Monate habe ich mit Frank Mänz, Produkt Manager für Windows Live in Deutschland gesprochen. Ende letzten Jahres hat Windows Live eine neue Version von den Windows-Live-Produkten veröffentlicht. Frank hat mir viel über die neue Windows Live Features und Funktionalität erzählt. Weil es so viele Neuigkeiten zu zeigen gibt, hat Frank über 25 Minuten darüber geredet. Ich dachte, dass das ein bisschen zu lang ist und habe das Video in 3 Teile geteilt. In Video Teil 1 gibt Frank mir einen Überblick über Windows Live und zeigt auch die Neuigkeiten zu der Windows Live Startseite, Hotmail, und Windows Live Fotos.

http://windows.live.com/

http://home.live.com/

POP3 for Hotmail Now Worldwide

Sarah Perez — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 13:30:00 GMT

Remember when we told you that Hotmail was rolling out POP3 technology to various parts of the world with other countries being added later this year? Well, apparently “later this year” means “right now!” (That was fast!).According to a post from the Hotmail team, POP3 access to your email is no longer limited to select countries – it’s available worldwide. So now, in addition to visiting the mobile web page for Hotmail, you can configure your phone to download your email, too.

Here are the settings you need to know (some phones need to know more than others):

POP server: pop3.live.com (Port 995)
POP SSL required? Yes
User name: Your Windows Live ID, for example yourname@hotmail.com
Password: The password you usually use to sign in to Hotmail or Windows Live
SMTP server: smtp.live.com (Port 25 or 587)
Authentication required? Yes (this matches your POP username and password)
TLS/SSL required? Yes

Remember, when you’re on your desktop PC, you’ll want to use Windows Live Mail (which uses IMAP as the default) or Microsoft Office Outlook via the Outlook Connector.

Hotmail adds POP3

Sarah Perez — Tue, 27 Jan 2009 05:00:00 GMT

If you live in the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, France, Japan, Spain, Germany, Italy, and the Netherlands then you have a new way to get your Hotmail on your mobile phone: via POP3. The POP3 protocol is a standard email protocol that lets you retrieve email messages from a server and deliver them to your designated program. With this functionality in place, you can easily add Hotmail to your Windows Mobile phone, iPhone, or BlackBerry.

Here’s the technical information you need to know:

POP server: pop3.live.com (Port 995)
POP SSL required? Yes
User name: Your Windows Live ID, for example yourname@hotmail.com
Password: The password you usually use to sign in to Hotmail or Windows Live
SMTP server: smtp.live.com (Port 25)
Authentication required? Yes (this matches your POP username and password)
TLS/SSL required? Yes

If you don’t live in one of the regions specified, the Hotmail team says not too worry – they will be rolling out POP3 to other parts of the world later this year.

Of course, you can still access your mail on your mobile from mobile.live.com or by using Windows Live on your Windows Mobile phone. And on your desktop, you can check Hotmail using Windows Live Mail (which uses IMAP as the default) or Microsoft Office Outlook via the Outlook Connector.

Novos serviços e produtos Windows Live

Galileu Vieira — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 06:04:00 GMT

Durante as próximas semanas, a Microsoft estará melhorando de forma significativa a família Windows Live. Para quem não conhece, Windows Live é um conjunto de software ricos e serviços Web, liderado pelos mais conhecidos Hotmail e Messenger. O Windows Live buscará simplificar a vida na Web através do lançamento de uma nova geração de serviços inovadores de comunicação que ajudam às pessoas a manterem contato, compartilharem suas atividades e manter sua vida sincronizada e atualizada.

Hoje a Microsoft anunciou parcerias com empresas líderes do mundo Web como Flickr, Twitter, Wordpress, Photobucket e Pandora, entre outras. Isso é uma primeira prova de nosso compromisso com facilitar o compartilhamento da vida digital dos usuários Windows Live com as pessoas que lhes são mais importante, independente do provedor de serviço Web.

Nossa visão para o Windows Live é que ele unifique os meios de comunicação e compartilhamento online – não importa o provedor do serviço – através de um único local onde você poderá escrever seus e-mails, conversar com seus amigos, compartilhar fotos e arquivos e realmente manter contato com as pessoas e as informações mais relevantes para você. Tudo isso do PC ou do celular, em casa ou no trabalho.

O vídeo nesse post mostra nossa visão e em breve eu vou publicar mais vídeos mostrando os novos serviços. Por enquanto, vocês podem acessar os novos softwares no site http://download.live.com.

O Windows Live Messenger agora incorpora as atualizações de sua rede direito no prorgama.

Windows Live Galeria de Fotos com detecção de pessoas.

Você pode organizar suas fotos por pessoas.

O novo photos.live.com para armazenar e compartilhar as suas fotos.

O Windows Live Writer permite colocar alguns de fotos no seu blog post.

O Hotmail agora permite que você faça buscas na Web direto do email para incluir fotos e vídeos que você encontra na busca.

A nova página de Perfil mostra de uma só vez tudo que está acontecendo na sua rede de amigos.

A nova página de Grupos permite que conversas só entre o grupo aconteçam na Internet.

O Windows Live Mail permite incorporar fotos no email de uma forma bem simples e com efeitos bacanas.

A nova Toolbar é bem rica e utiliza o conceito de Web Slices do Internet Explorer 8 para mostrar de forma rápida o que está acontecendo na sua rede.

A nova página Home tem um cabeçalho dinâmico que reflete o horário do dia e o clima em sua cidade.

Outlook Connector Version 12.1 Beta Released

Sarah Perez — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 15:52:00 GMT

The Microsoft Office Outlook Team have just announced a new beta version of the Outlook Connector - the add-in that lets you sync your Windows Live Hotmail data in Outlook. In the past, email and contacts syncing was available for free, but syncing your calendar was only available with a subscription service. No more! Calendar sync is free! Not only that, but the calendar syncing service now also syncs with the Windows Live Calendar Beta service, too! That means you can sync your work calendar in Outlook to your personal calendar in Hotmail to your family calendar in Windows Live Calendar and vice versa. And since Windows Live Calendar supports calendar sharing, other shared calendars that you have access to will also sync back to Outlook. The new Outlook connector is faster, more reliable, and, as always, free. You can download it from here.

Windows Live Hotmail and Windows Live Messenger Come to Blackberry

Sarah Perez — Wed, 21 May 2008 14:39:00 GMT

It was announced that Microsoft and Research in Motion, makers of the Blackberry, have formed an agreement which will allow RIM to provide some Windows Live services on their Blackberry smartphones. Starting sometime this summer, new Blackberrys will start shipping that feature mobile versions of both Windows Live Messenger and Windows Live Hotmail. Often when apps go mobile they lose a lot of features in the process, but that doesn't seem to be the case with either of these. Windows Live Hotmail, for example, will send email to phones via Blackberry's "push" technology, will have its own dedicated inbox, and will display email in full HTML, showing graphics, links, and even contact photos. Live Messenger will also be feature-rich, offering the ability to join group chats, set presence indicators and status messages, save conversations, display avatars, send and receive files and photos, and allow you to use more than 60 emoticons.

i'm Making a Difference - Now in Your Email, Too!

Sarah Perez — Wed, 07 May 2008 14:12:00 GMT

You've heard about the i'm initiative before - it's the charitable movement that allows you to donate to your favorite causes just by using IM. Now, you can participate in both Windows Live Messenger or Hotmail or both. You can choose to support the same organization in both places or pick a different one for each service. To get started, go to http://im.live.com to join. This program is currently available only in the U.S. and benefits organizations like the American Red Cross, Boys & Girls Clubs of America, the National AIDS Fund, National Multiple Sclerosis Society, ninemillion.org, Sierra Club, StopGlobalWarming.org, Susan G. Komen for the Cure, The Humane Society of the United States and the U.S Fund for UNICEF. (via LiveSide)

Get a yourname@live.com email now!

Max — Tue, 06 Nov 2007 22:23:00 GMT

Ever since we came out with live.com I have been a huge fan of the domain name. You say "Google it" I say "Live it!" To each his own.

Either way, for a long time I have been asking the product teams to use username@live.com instead of user@hotmail.com as my email address... and today they have delivered! Starting right now you can go here and register a name, like clownmember.f4r7@live.com.

Access your Windows Live Hotmail in Outlook 2003/07

Nic Fillingham — Fri, 24 Aug 2007 03:55:00 GMT

Got Hotmail? Got Outlook? Bring them together with Microsoft Office Outlook Connector.

Microsoft Office Outlook Connector gives you access to your Windows Live Hotmail and Office Live Mail accounts from within Outlook (2003 or 2007). Send and receive email as well as manage your contacts without having to open a browser.

Calendar, Tasks and Notes access is also available for those with a premium Windows Live Mail/Hotmail/Office Live Mail subscription.

More Info Here & Download Here

Sign Into Hotmail With One Click

Sarah Perez — Mon, 30 Jul 2007 07:27:00 GMT

Did you know that you can sign into Hotmail with just one click? Neither did I, until I saw this post on Windows Live Chronicles blog. Here's how it works:

Install the "Windows Live Sign In Assistant." Currently, this comes with Windows Live Messenger if you check the option to "Install Windows Live Sign-in Assistant."
Go to http://mail.live.com instead of http://www.hotmail.com
Check "Remember on this computer", and "Remember my password," then click "Login."
Repeat process if you have more than one account. (For details on those steps, see their blog post.)
From now on, you can access your mailbox from mail.live.com with one click!

Windows Live Hotmail is here!

Laura Foy — Thu, 10 May 2007 19:32:00 GMT

This week we launched Windows Live Hotmail, a new Web-based e-mail platform and the follow-on to its successful MSN Hotmail service. The new e-mail service will not only look a lot more like Outlook, Microsoft's popular e-mail application, but it will integrate with it, too.

Windows Live Hotmail will bring a few changes to Hotmail. Most notably, the interface was designed after Outlook, and will include familiar Outlook features, like right-click and drag-and-drop capabilities, preview pane customization, and auto-complete addressing.

Check out this clip and see it in full action. Then....go get it!

Hotmail gets a new look and name: Windows Live Hotmail

Tina Wood — Mon, 07 May 2007 17:07:00 GMT

Microsoft has decided to take the plunge with one of its most popular brands and give it a new name and look. We all know hotmail as Microsoft's Web-based email service. Well, they've officially changed the name to "Windows Live Hotmail". Microsoft is specifically talking about the following features:

Reading Pane
Ability to Drag and Drop objects
Better Performance
Integration with other Live services (including instant messenger)

With more then 280 million active hotmail accounts worldwide this new version is bound to make an impact on your emailing services.
Microsoft will also have new software called Outlook Connector which will allow users to access their Live Hotmail accounts in Microsoft's desktop e-mail product.