I know. Just let me finish. It sounds crazy — Hotmail is the leper colony of email, right? The running joke, the email potato famine we all fled for Gmail a decade ago — yeah. But that was then. Hotmail is changing. More »
As far as internal corporate-sponsored parody videos, I would actually have expected a lot worse out of Microsoft than this three-minute takedown of Gmail. Nerd fight! More »
Obvious passwords such as “password”, “123456″ and “ilovecats” have been put on the blacklist by Microsoft for new Hotmail users, in a mammoth attempt at curbing hacking. More »
Governments in Bahrain, Algeria, Syria, Iran and the Sudan are all free to snoop their citizens’ Hotmail accounts today, as Microsoft has inexplicably disabled HTTPS support for Hotmail users in those countries. More »
Alright, anyone with an ounce of sense in their bones probably gave up on Hotmail long ago. But wait! A new feature that lets you create temporary accounts that are managed within existing inboxes? Sounds… convenient? [CNET]
An epic Hotmail takedown is kind of like an epic takedown of a three-legged puppy. But that doesn’t mean it’s not highly entertaining. Or maybe I’m just a sucker for British nerd raps. More »
That free webmail service we all used before Gmail came along has finally made a move, revealing a new look and integrated features that encourage users to make Hotmail their one-stop home page. More »
My first email account was a hotmail account. It was the heady days of 1998 – I was 18 and about to go and follow every young Australian’s clichéd dream of backpacking through Europe. These were the days when finding an internet cafe was a rare occurrence, and even when you did you had to tolerate dial up speeds. Back then, I probably would have signed up for a hotmail.com.au email address if it was available. But that was over a decade ago, and today my hotmail account is a magnet for spam and newsletters I can’t be bothered unsubscribing from. More »
