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Category: Hotmail
Acquired by Microsoft in 1997, Hotmail is today the second largest web-based free e-mail service available.
Hotmail keyboard shortcuts: the full list
Learn how to perform keyboard acrobatics with Windows Live Hotmail. Speed up the way you work and mail.
How-to: Use Hotmail like Outlook
Since last week, the e-mail service Windows Live Hotmail has got an update. Keyboard shortcuts, right-click menus like in Outlook and more details have been added and updated.
New Hotmail phishing
New phishing attacks to Hotmail have recently occured. This is what the security company Trend Micro is reporting.
Reinventing Hotmail Wave 5 with HTML5
The fifth wave of the Windows Live services is due in 2012 the earliest. In this wave, Hotmail could get revamped with HTML5-specific features too. For example, the Hotmail team is planning to support Offline storage.
Lost Hotmail inboxes are now back
In the official Windows Live blog, Microsoft’s Chris Jones informed that the Hotmail problems have now been fixed. Since 30 December, more than 17,000 customers did not have access to their messages.
Making e-mail interactive with Hotmail’s Active Views
Together with some partners, Microsoft has introduced the new Hotmail Active Views platform. With this new feature, you can interact with e-mails in a whole new way to do certain tasks right within your Hotmail inbox.
How-to: Enable full SSL encryption for your Hotmail session
Microsoft’s web mail service Hotmail, part of Windows Live, now supports SSL encryption throughout your session. This helps that nobody in the middle can read what you get in your Inbox neither what you send.
Introducing Hotmail for your own e-mail address
Windows Live Hotmail gets a new feature: Now you can access other e-mail accounts from Hotmail. For example, you can send and receive Gmails within Hotmail’s interface.
Adding security to Hotmail
With two new features, Hotmail users can access their accounts better in case they have been compromised by criminals. That is what the Windows Live team has announced in the Inside Windows Live blog.