Hotmail e-mail problem fixed, Microsoft says

A "temporary outage" of Microsoft's MSN, Windows Live and Hotmail services resulted in users being told they didn't have an e-mail inbox when they signed in, and they also were directed to sign up for new e-mail. The problem was resolved as of Friday morning, according to Microsoft.

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Microsoft Hotmail Blocked for Some

An undisclosed technical glitch blocked users from logging on to Microsoft Corp.'s free Web-based e-mail service and other sites Tuesday.

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Microsoft Ups Hotmail Storage to 5 GB

Microsoft Corp. will soon let users of its Hotmail service store 5 gigabytes of photos and other e-mail messages, more than double the previous limit.

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Microsoft's New Hotmail Goes Live

The latest version of Microsoft Corp.'s free Web-based e-mail is now widely available to the public in 36 languages.

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Review: Microsoft's 'Kahuna' Falls Short

I signed up for my first Hotmail account in 1996 when a tech-savvy friend told me it would be part of the wave of the future.

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Poll: Do you use MSN as your browser's homepage?

I've stopped as of October 11, 2009.

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Password details for Windows Live Hotmail accounts, including @hotmail.com, @msn.com, and @live.com e-mail addresses, were posted by an anonymous user over at pastebin.com, a site that allows users to paste snippets of text and then share it privately or publicly.

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It has emerged that yesterday's news of 10,000 Hotmail accounts being hacked was merely the tip of the iceberg and 20,000 AOL, Yahoo, Comcast, Earthlink and Gmail accounts have also been compromised.

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Microsoft Corp said on Monday that passwords belonging to some users of its Hotmail email service were exposed on an Internet site, but had since been taken down.

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The massive security breach that led to millions of Hotmail customers being advised to change their passwords has now spread to users of email services including Gmail and Yahoo! Mail.

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Users of that old web mail service Hotmail have a new reason to regret their devotion: Over the weekend, thousands of user names and passwords from the service were posted on a data-sharing service called Pastebin, with potentially hundreds of thousands of additional users at ris …

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Google's Gmail is the fastest-growing e-mail service on the planet, but it has a way to go to catch Yahoo's still-growing market share.

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Microsoft has upgraded it's Quick Add feature in Hotmail, first announced earlier this year, with a number of features from their new Bing search engine.

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Chinese censors blocked access to Twitter and other popular online services today , two days before the 20th anniversary of the crackdown on democracy protests in Tiananmen Square.

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The FBI for at least seven years has relied on a home-brewed package of spyware to infiltrate the computers of criminals and secretly send a wide range of information to servers controlled by the bureau, according to an investigation by Wired.com.

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Hotmail suffers outage

8.38pm AEST Update: Microsoft has now confirmed on their help site, windowslivehelp.com, that there was an outage and that all services are now fully restored.

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Just thought I rePost this.

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The Windows Live team announces that POP3 access to Hotmail has been enabled worldwide, finally ending years of your email being trapped behind Microsoft apps.

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UK Justice Secretary Jack Straw has been criticised by a security vendor for using a Hotmail account for government business - an account that was subsequently hacked by Nigerian scammers.

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Microsoft rolls out Hotmail, Windows Live updates

Microsoft has begun rolling out additional updates to it's Windows Live Hotmail service, including changing the banner advert to the right-hand side of screen, and adding more space for users mailboxes.

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The growth of Google (NSDQ: GOOG)'s Gmail service is accelerating and, if current trends continue, it could surpass Windows Live Hotmail by the end of this year.Between December 2007 and December 2008, Gmail's number of unique monthly visitors in the United States grew 43%, from  …

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A Windows Live application for Apple's iPhone and better support for Hotmail on the device is being considered by Microsoft as it rolls out the latest raft of changes to its online software and services.

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Name an e-mail service - any e-mail service - that offers both a web interface and a mail client, by the same company, that syncs mail, address book, calendar, instant messenger, and allows you to connect it directly to your domain… …all for free.

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According to sources close to the company - Microsoft's bankers have been putting out subtle signals to Facebook to see if it would be open to a full buyout of Facebook.

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Are you a human or a computer? Over the Internet, it's getting harder and harder to tell. Some of the common tests used by Web sites to distinguish between legitimate flesh-and-blood visitors and malicious human-mimicking computers recently appear to have been outwitted.

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Maintaining internal E-mail systems but Google apps education system under their E-mail service? Wrong! for 60 megabytes of storage, just 3 percent of the 2 gigabytes Window Live now providing.

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Vendor looks to nudge users toward its newer Windows Live Mail desktop client. In the latest death knell for Outlook Express, Microsoft Corp. announced Thursday that it will turn off access to its Web-based Hotmail service from the desktop e-mail software at the end of June.

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The co-founder of Hotmail, the web-based e-mail service bought by Microsoft for $400 million a decade ago, is challenging the American software giant's core $20 billion (£9.7 billion) office desktop business.

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The co-founder of Hotmail, the web-based e-mail service bought by Microsoft for $400 million a decade ago, is challenging the American software giant's core $20 billion (£9.7 billion) office desktop business.

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Those of us older than 25 can't imagine a life without e-mail. For the Facebook generation, it's hard to imagine a life of only e-mail, much less a life before it. I can still remember the proud moment in 1996 when I sent my first e-mail from the college computer lab.

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