Microsoft claims the Hotmail outage affecting 17,355 users last week was caused by mailbox load balancing between servers. It also insists service is restored. – Microsoft is blaming its recent Hotmail outage on server
issues.
“Beginning on December 30th we had an issue with Windows
Live Hotmail that impacted 17,355 accounts,” Chris Jones, vice president of
Windows Live engineering, wrote
in a Jan. 3 post on the Inside Windows Live blog. “Customers imp…
Microsoft claims it restored Hotmail e-mails and service to affected users although complaints about missing messages still persisted on Jan. 3. –
Microsoft is still working to fix an issue that deleted Hotmail users
e-mail. The problem had led to widespread consternation over the weekend, with complaints
about missing e-mail and new messages moved to the Deleted folder.
Many affected users were quick to post on the Windows
Live Solutio…
Microsoft has added the option to turn on HTTPS encryption to protect your entire Hotmail session. – Microsoft is building on its recent security announcements
for Windows Live Hotmail with the addition of
a new always-on HTTPS encryption option.
Microsoft announced the feature Nov. 9. With it, Hotmail users
will have the option to secure their entire Hotmail session with HTTPS,
instead …
Microsoft said it is delivering security changes to Hotmail users this week, including new user identity proofs and detection capabilities meant to thwart account hijacking. – Microsoft has begun rolling out new security features for Hotmail users
today centered around preventing and detecting account compromises.
The changes, which Microsoft first discussed
with eWEEK in May, will take about a week to roll out to all users, Dan
Lewis, senior product manager for Windo…
Microsoft tweaked its cloud offerings this week, with new features for Office Web Apps, Bing and Hotmail. The company also unveiled an HPC server and adjusted a security software agreement. – Microsoft tweaked its cloud offerings this week, introducing new features to
Office Web Apps, Bing and Hotmail designed to give those services further
advantage over Yahoo and Google.
Updates
to Hotmail include a new e-mail attachment size of 25MB, support for
viewing Dailymotion and Justin.tv …
Microsoft is tweaking both Office Web Apps and Hotmail, introducing new features designed to attract and retain users who would otherwise choose similar applications from Yahoo and Google. – Microsoft is tweaking Office Web Apps and Hotmail, seeking to make further inroads
in the consumer cloud space.
Updates to Hotmail include Facebook Chat integration, the ability to track
packages within an e-mail without needing to navigate to the shipper’s Website,
a new e-mail attachment size …
Microsoft’s week centered on filing a lawsuit against Salesforce.com over alleged patent infringement, an action that some analysts thought indicative of a broader strategy. That lawsuit came as Microsoft arranged a $200 million out-of-court settlement with VirnetX over intellectual property issues. Also on the Web-based side of things, Microsoft announced a wide-ranging update to Hotmail, including new features for clutter-reduction and spam elimination, designed to help the e-mail service better compete against Googles Gmail and other rivals. – Microsofts legal activities dominated its week,
particularly its filing of an intellectual property suit against Salesforce.com
May 18, alleging infringement on nine of its patents. Microsoft may have
publicly cast that action as a standard-issue patent-infringement case a
relatively regular occ…
Microsoft is updating Windows Live Hotmail to include a host of new tools targeting clutter elimination, spam reduction and security. In addition to emphasizing a mobile component, with e-mail synchronization between a smartphone and the Web, the new Hotmail leverages the users Windows Live account to pull in information from social-networking services such as Windows Live Messenger, Facebook and MySpace. The Hotmail update comes as Microsoft finds itself in heightened competition against Google and Yahoo, which also are expanding the features of their respective e-mail services. Microsoft also wants Hotmail to be seen as a productivity hub. Thanks to integration with SkyDrive and Office Web Apps, Office documents included in e-mails as attachments can be opened on a PC without Office installed; and Hotmail now allows up to 10GB of photos to be sent in a single e-mail. For some users, such features may prove an even larger benefit than streamlining their inbox or eliminating spam. – …
Microsoft gave eWEEK a deeper look at the security features it has planned for the upcoming version of Microsoft Hotmail. The security goodies are aimed not only at fighting spam, but also fighting phishing by improving authentication and account recovery features. – Microsoft is adding& a number of security enhancements under the hood to
help protect Hotmail users.
The changes will be rolled out in the coming months as part of a major
overhaul of Hotmail and will cross& a number of areas, including general
account security and password recovery. In a conve…
As per the announcement made recently by Microsoft, there is in the pipeline an upgraded version of Hotmail to be launched soon, and will be named as Windows Live Hotmail. Chris Jones, corporate vice president for Microsoft, revealed this in a press briefing in San Francisco, and briefed reporters present there about changes made by [...]
Microsoft announced substantial updates to Windows Live Hotmail on May 18, with an emphasis on tools and features that eliminate spam, reduce clutter, and allow for tasks such as sending 10GB of photos per message. Hotmail will leverage Windows Live services to mine contacts from social-networking services such as Facebook and MySpace. The new Hotmail additions fit with three Web trends: consolidating services from across the Web into a single application, providing that applications services via mobile, and adding new features to an application to make it more competitive. – Microsoft announced updates to Windows Live Hotmail on May
18, emphasizing a variety of new clutter-elimination and security tools at a
time when the company finds itself in ever-increasing competition against
Google and Yahoo in the online-applications arena. Of particular note is how
Hotmail n…
Twenty-four hours after news broke that someone posted usernames and passwords for 10,000 Microsoft Hotmail customers, it was discovered that a similar list with information on thousands of Gmail, AOL and Yahoo Mail were online as well. In light of the news, here are some tips about staying safe online.
– A day after reports surfaced that 10,000 Microsoft Windows Live Hotmail user credentials had been stolen and posted online, the BBC has reported seeing a list of some 20,000 e-mail accounts and passwords belonging to users of Google Gmail, AOL,
Yahoo Mail, Comcast and Earthlink. In both cases, of…
Microsoft confirmed thousands of Hotmail customers had their usernames and passwords posted recently on a third-party site as a result of a likely phishing attack. An investigation by Microsoft has determined that there was no breach of internal data on the company’s part.
– Officials at Microsoft confirmed that thousands users of Windows
Live Hotmail had their user credentials posted on a
third-party site.
According to Microsoft, the username and password information was likely
swiped in a phishing scheme, and the company is currently working with
customers who…
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