Neowin News Feed for: Hotmail

Microsoft to stop supporting linked accounts in Outlook.com

Brad Sams — Mon, 17 Jun 2013 18:26:30 +0100

Microsoft has announced that Outlook.com and Hotmail will soon stop supporting linked accounts which means you may need to make changes to how you check your email each morning. Read more...

Microsoft's Hotmail-to-Outlook.com transfer totaled 150 petabytes

John Callaham — Fri, 03 May 2013 01:49:09 +0100

Microsoft has released a new infographic that shows how how much data was transferred when it transitioned all of Hotmail's users to the new Outlook.com web email service. Read more...

Microsoft blames heat for Outlook.com, Hotmail, SkyDrive outage

Tim Schiesser — Thu, 14 Mar 2013 12:18:59 +0000

Microsoft has laid the blame on an overheating data center for the recent outage to Outlook.com, Hotmail, Calendar and SkyDrive, which caused service disruptions for nearly 16 hours Read more...

Outlook.com, Hotmail, and Skydrive experiened service disruptions

Brad Sams — Wed, 13 Mar 2013 00:52:07 +0000

Microsoft's status website for many of its online services is reporting a disruption to normal operations to many of its online services as of about 5:35 PT/ 8:35 EST. Read more...

Rumor: Microsoft accounts to allow for multiple alias signups soon?

John Callaham — Sun, 03 Mar 2013 16:14:33 +0000

A new rumor claims that Microsoft will soon allow Microsoft account users to log in with up to 10 different aliases, and one of them can be set up as the primary alias. Read more...

Microsoft Outlook.com and Hotmail down for some users [Update]

John Callaham — Mon, 25 Feb 2013 13:13:34 +0000

Some users of Microsoft's online email service Outlook.com and Hotmail are reporting they are unable to sign onto their accounts this morning, although this does not appear to affect all users. Read more...

Microsoft: Over 1.5 million more Outlook.com users added today

John Callaham — Wed, 20 Feb 2013 00:20:37 +0000

Microsoft announced today via Twitter that it added over 1.5 million new users to its Outlook.com email service since the official launch of Outlook.com earlier this morning Read more...

Outlook.com hits 60 million users, drops preview tag

Brad Sams — Tue, 19 Feb 2013 05:02:00 +0000

Microsoft has announced today that the Outlook.com email service has hit 60 million users and to celebrate that occasion, Microsoft is dropping the preview tag from the service. Read more...

Is Microsoft blocking Mega email registrations from arriving at Hotmail/Outlook.com accounts? [Update]

John Callaham — Sat, 26 Jan 2013 16:46:32 +0000

People who try to register to use the new Mega file-sharing service with Microsoft's Hotmail and Outlook.com email accounts are apparently not getting back their confirmation emails. Read more...

Microsoft working to restore missing Hotmail emails for some Outlook.com users

John Callaham — Fri, 18 Jan 2013 19:41:42 +0000

Microsoft has sent a statement to Neowin saying it is still working to restore missing emails from Hotmail users who have moved their account to the new Outlook.com service. Read more...

Many Hotmail users still dealing with missing emails when switching to Outlook.com

John Callaham — Fri, 18 Jan 2013 00:14:51 +0000

Despite being reported several months ago, many Hotmail users who have tried to switch their accounts to the new Outlook.com service from Microsoft have still not been able to access their old emails. Read more...

Mobile Hotmail & Outlook.com users hit with access issue [Update]

Tim Schiesser — Fri, 11 Jan 2013 00:03:34 +0000

Currently some users are experiencing issues with accessing Hotmail and Outlook.com on mobile devices, as issues with Exchange ActiveSync have persisted for several days without a fix Read more...

Microsoft under the EU microscope again

Andrew Stevenson — Wed, 19 Dec 2012 14:12:54 +0000

Microsoft is being investigated by EU data protection regulators for potential privacy issues, this time for changing the policies around Internet based services such as Hotmail and Bing. Read more...

Microsoft trying to fix Outlook.com sync issues with Outlook 2013

John Callaham — Mon, 17 Dec 2012 08:43:23 +0000

Microsoft is fixing an issue with its Outlook.com service which caused many users to get errors saying they have too many devices syncing to their Exchange ActiveSync accounts when using Outlook 2013 Read more...

Microsoft wants you to switch to Outlook.com, will remind you next week

Brad Sams — Fri, 07 Dec 2012 15:40:00 +0000

Next week Microsoft will start a campaign to genteelly remind Hotmail users that they should upgrade to Outlook.com and that the Hotmail platform will eventually go away. Read more...

Skype for iOS updated with Microsoft account support

John Callaham — Wed, 28 Nov 2012 16:27:00 +0000

Skype has updated its iOS port today, adding in support for Microsoft Accounts to allow people to sign into the VoIP app with Microsoft accounts used for Messenger, Hotmail and Outlook.com. Read more...

Gmail finally takes the crown as the most popular email service globally

Paul Ferson — Wed, 31 Oct 2012 20:41:20 +0000

Third-party results finally suggest that Google's mail service is leading the world, despite the search giant having claimed this to be the case during the summer. Somehow, Yahoo is still hanging on. Read more...

Aol's new Alto email product won't work with Microsoft services [Update]

John Callaham — Thu, 18 Oct 2012 15:22:38 +0100

Aol has launched a new web email service called Alto that's designed to work with Gmail, Yahoo Mail, Aol Mail and .Mac, but the press release make no mention of Hotmail or Outlook.com from Microsoft. Read more...

Some Hotmail users report access issues when switching to Outlook.com

John Callaham — Sat, 06 Oct 2012 00:04:43 +0100

A number of Hotmail users who have tried to switch their accounts to the new Outlook.com service from Microsoft have not been able to access their old emails, and the problems continue to pop up. Read more...

Microsoft shows how to move from Hotmail to Outlook.com

John Callaham — Sun, 05 Aug 2012 20:12:32 +0100

In a new blog post, Microsoft gives details on how a user can transfer their Hotmail email account over to the company's newly launched Outlook.com web email service. Read more...