A Windows Live Mail update
The latest update to Windows Live Mail beta was released to the world today. There are lots of great improvements including performance, in-line spell checking and the introduction of the "down-level" experience…
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Want to be part of Windows Live Mail?
I get this question a lot: "how do I get on the beta?" I get it almost as much as "could you please send me an invite?" Well, we've taken the human…
Application-like spell checking… on the web?!?!?
I don't think I can understate how cool this feature is: spell check as you type. Ever since I first saw this feature in Word I've been wanting it in every application…
Thoughts on being a closet MS employee
I was always at odds with myself when I was working in the Mac group at Microsoft. The team is a great, smart bunch of people who really love the Mac platform…
Yes, we have no bananas,
I appreciate the enthusiasm folks have for becoming part of the mail beta, but I don't, unfortunately, have any invites to give out at this time. When I do have some invites…
Raw diet
The various competing digital RAW formats have been a boon to professional and pro-sumer photographers but to date the support for them has been limited to the manufacturer's software and expensive photo…
A history of Hotmail on Wikipedia
Omar pointed out today that Wikipedia has a good article on Hotmail. Lots of interesting facts including the origin of the service's name, "Hotmail". From Bengt, the original Hotmail logo:
I couldn’t resist
New Tech News World article: Microsoft and Pfizer Team Up Against Viagra Spammers C'mon, what happened to the good old days of clever headlines? How about: "Unwanted advances from Viagra spammers turn…
Who knew?
Here's some Hotmail trivia to impress your friends: Hotmail is used in more than 220 countries and territories – more than the number recognized by the United Nations. If MSN Hotmail’s 190M…
More free music*
I love free music... well, I love free legal music. I may have to wait a while for another Mercedes Benz mixed tape but starting tomorrow (2/8) MSN Music is starting its…
Want less Spam in your Hotmail account?
There's a quick and easy step you can take: turn your junk e-mail filter from "Low" to "Enhanced". At the lowest level Hotmail will delete the known junk e-mail before it even…
I can quit any time I like
Normally I don't like it when my honey goes out of town… I get lonely and sulky, I don't shave and I eat way more cereal than any human should. Tuesday was…
Bizarre tech support techniques
Hotmail is a really big service - servers measured in the thousands, active users measured in the hundreds of millions, incoming mail measured in the billions. It's not cheap to run (yeah,…
Windows tip
Here's a helpful tip that is quite simple but, surprisingly, quite under-used. When you go to your Start -> All Programs menu to you find it's difficult to location a particular application? …
New security threat
Update: Patch for part of the problem: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=4D056748-C538-46F6-B7C8-2FBFD0D237E3&displaylang=en On line news sources have picked up ISC's warning of a new threat to IE users which could allow hackers to steal on line banking…
Movement from the Mac guys
A couple big changes this week involving the guys from the Mac team (I used to test PWS, IMN, OE and Entourage for the Mac team): Tantek Çelik has decided to leave…