Archive: ‘Hotmail’ Category

End of life for MSN Web Messenger: 30 June 2009

Hotmail June 27th, 2009

The Windows Live team has announced the end of life for MSN Web Messenger. Since Windows Live now supports instant messaging integrated into both Hotmail and People, there is no need to maintain 2 web messengers at the same time. Additionally, site owners are free to get their own web messenger running, [...]

Messenger in Hotmail: You got it now?

Hotmail April 21st, 2009

According to the most recent announcements, Messenger in Windows Live Hotmail is now available for customers in Brazil, Canada, China, Germany, the Netherlands, Norway, and the US. If you are living in one of these countries, you will now be able to chat with your Messenger contacts directly from your Hotmail inbox. The Hotmail team [...]

Hotmail POP access now worldwide

Hotmail March 15th, 2009

After the unexpected Hotmail outage, POP access is now available to all Windows Live Hotmail customers worldwide!
How to use POP with Hotmail
I will show you the example of Microsoft Office Outlook 2007, but other mail clients are similar.

Click “Tools”, “Account Settings…”.
On the “E-mail” tab, click “New…”.
If you are prompted to “Choose E-mail Service”, select “Microsoft [...]

New Live Hotmail: Has Microsoft a hearing ear?

Hotmail November 11th, 2008

Since the roll-out of the new Windows Live Hotmail, there has been an enormous reaction of the users, mostly negative, as we see on the amount of comments to various blog posts on Windows Live Wire. Finally, it seems as if Microsoft was listening to their users and working on better compatibility and more [...]