Archive: Posts Tagged ‘Outlook’

Office 2010 for all

No comments June 15th, 2010

Starting from today, Microsoft Office 2010 is available in 240 countries and ten languages. Subscribers of Microsoft TechNet Subscriptions and MSDN can download the software since April, now it is available in stores for private users as well.

Send messages without Hotmail advertisements

1 comment June 11th, 2010

In the upcoming Hotmail version, e-mails sent with Hotmail will no longer have an advertisement footer. The update, rolling out from 15 June 2010 onwards, is code-named “Wave 4”, and getting rid of the Hotmail advertisement is part of this new version.

Source: LiveSino.net Live Mail Wave 4: Possible New Features and a New Photo

1 comment January 20th, 2010
Windows Live Mail Wave 4, Main window

Windows Live Hotmail Wave 4 might get Gmail-alike features like Labeling and Archiving. LiveSino.net has published a new screenshot of the Windows Live Mail Wave 4 main window.

How-to: Stop Outlook Sending Winmail.dat Attachments

Comments Off November 25th, 2009

Sometimes when you send a message with Microsoft Outlook, the recipient only receives a “winmail.dat” attachment instead of the original ones. You can prevent this from happening by selecting the correct message format.

Malicious Windows Update mails in the wild

Comments Off October 25th, 2009

When I opened my mail this morning, I found a message pretending to be from Microsoft. It offered me to install a Critical Update for Microsoft Outlook / Outlook Express (KB910721), and also sent the download link.

How-to: Connect to a synced folder with Windows Live Sync

Comments Off September 8th, 2009

If you have Windows Live Sync installed on your computer, you can connect a computer to a synchronized folder to synchronize files. You must install the Sync software from the Sync website, on every computer that you want to synchronize files on. You can connect multiple computers to a personal folder, but each one must [...]

Read receipts in Windows Live Mail: dangerous?!

Comments Off August 27th, 2009

“This message contains an attachment whose file type is considered dangerous. The file has been deactivated.” This is what I read in the Windows Live Mail preview pane, each (!) time when I receive a read receipt from a recipient who is using Microsoft Outlook. What attachment is blocked? Files like “ATT000XX.txt”! Why are text-only [...]

Windows Live Mail 2009 QFE2: Some bug fixes

1 comment August 24th, 2009

Did you have some trouble using Windows Live Mail in the past months? Its recently released bugfix version might correct the error that you experienced. According to Roger Benson, Lead Program Manager Windows Live Mail, Version 2009 QFE2 (14.0.8089.726) addresses, among others, the following bugs: Windows Live Mail can now properly import Outlook Express e-mail [...]

Windows Live and You: “Building the right platform for web sites to plug into Windows Live users” (Angus Logan, Microsoft)

Comments Off August 16th, 2009

Welcome to a new interview in the summer edition of the series “Windows Live and You”! Today I have invited a special guest to talk with him about his personal relation to Windows Live: let’s welcome Angus Logan, Senior Technical Product Manager for Live Services at Microsoft. mynetx: Angus, it is a pleasure for me [...]

Hotmail annoyances

4 comments July 2nd, 2009

Windows Live Hotmail is great: it’s fast, reliable and doesn’t require me to install any client application but a browser. But there are also things in Hotmail that annoy me. Marking mail as junk The Junk filters in Hotmail are very good, as they filter most unsolicited e-mail I receive. However, some e-mail gets delivered [...]