Redmond is rolling out a preview of a new e-mail service that combines elements of Exchange and Hotmail into a Metro-influenced client. Mary Jo Foley Mary Jo Foley has covered the tech industry for 30 ...

Microsoft is moving all of its Hotmail users to Outlook.com by this summer. Here's what the hundreds of millions still using Hotmail need to know about the transition. Mary Jo Foley Mary Jo Foley has ...

Buzznet's Valentine Zune Contest may be over, but the Zune A Day Giveaway is only beginning to heat up. Microsoft has figured out how to promote both the Zune and Windows Live Hotmail for mobile in a ...

Microsoft has fixed a problem that caused an outage for many users of Hotmail and the service that is replacing it, Outlook.com. Maintenance work continued to affect the calendaring component of ...

Microsoft's Windows Live Hotmail e-mail service suffered a sweeping outage over the weekend, leaving some users with empty inboxes and missing data, including photos and other content. Microsoft did ...

Back in the day, Hotmail was, well, pretty hot. It was one of the first free Web-based email services available, instantly attracting a lot of users. It still has hundreds of millions of users ...

According to Microsoft, the widely popular Windows Live Hotmail Internet e-mail service first took a hit on Thursday, Dec. 30. Thousands of users reported logging into their accounts and noticing that ...

Responding to criticism of its investigation into an alleged leak of company trade secrets, Microsoft acknowledged overnight that it searched a Hotmail customer’s Microsoft accounts without a court ...

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