Microsoft is showing off that more than 10 million users registered to its Outlook.com webmail service in the two weeks after its launch.
The Hotmail.com successor arrived on July 31 as part of the software giant’s efforts to rival the market leading Google service, Gmail. After revealing that one million users registered in the first six hours since the release of Outlook.com, Microsoft now announces that the service has gained another nine million

Microsoft has introduced the new replacement for its Hotmail email service: Outlook.com.
The new email website is a complete turnaround for the long-existing Hotmail.com that well-utilizes the Metro UI. Microsoft is inviting users to shift from their current @hotmail.com email addresses to @outlook.com addresses.
The good thing about this new webmail service is that the user interface found in the homepage has been well-designed in a way that aspects are neat, not congested, and properly …

Microsoft announced today that it will be rolling out within the next few weeks features in Hotmail which aim to fight what the company terms as “graymail”.

Microsoft will be rolling out new features on Hotmail to fight “graymail”. Image: Amit Chattopadhyay / Flickr (CC)

“Graymail”, according to Microsoft, are emails including newsletters from mailing lists email account holders have signed up for.
According to Microsoft in a blog post, “What really characterizes graymail is …

Yahoo Mail and Hotmail have become the newest targets of a spear phishing attack which aims to steal the login names and passwords of members in order to stage later attacks.

Trend Micro reported on Friday that the phishing attacks on Yahoo Mail and Hotmail were carried out separately from initial attacks on Gmail.  Google revealed on Wednesday that hundreds of Gmail accounts were compromised in attacks that originated from servers in China, although Chinese officials said they are not …

Facebook said in a statement today that it quickly fixed a bug affecting a small number of Facebook users that also use Hotmail, after being notified of the vulnerability by a Turkish security researcher via its Hat que.

The bug involved Facebook’s password reset feature, which could have been used to reveal the passwords of a small number of people that also use Hotmail. Serkan Gencel, a Turkish security researcher, explained the vulnerability in an email to CNET this weekend:  “We can …

The Microsoft Windows Live Team, which develops and maintains Hotmail, announced that users can now connect to their LinkedIn and Netflix accounts from their Hotmail inbox following an update to its Active View service.

PC Magazine said the Active View feature is one of the reasons it named Windows Live Hotmail 2011 as its Editors Choice for webmail.  Hotmail members have already been using Active View to watch YouTube or Hulu videos and view Flickr photos right from their inbox.  Microsoft …

Facebook chat in Hotmail, which was made available in six regions in September, then globally via msn messenger is now also available in Hotmail in all regions of the world, wherever Facebook has a presence.

Microsoft Group Program Manager Dick Craddock, announcing the global launch of Facebook chat in Hotmail conceded that Google was quicker in providing chat in the  inbox, but said “we have now gone a step further and brought both our chat and Facebook chat into your inbox.”
Craddock …

Developers at Windows Live Hotmail have reported about the implementation of Facebook chat support in Hotmail, providing communication with the users of popular social networking site directly from the mail client. However, the service was started back in September last year in six locations, but now it is available to Hotmail users worldwide.
Microsoft expects that the integration of two services will expand the features for exchanging information on the web and it will have a positive impact …

In a bid to make hotmail more appealing, secure and useful to users, Microsoft’s Hotmail has launched a service which lets users create multiple ‘aliases’ for a single Hotmail account.
“Starting today, you can create and manage multiple email aliases from a single Hotmail account,” wrote Microsoft’s Dharmesh Mehta in a post on the official Windows Blog.
“The new aliasing feature makes it easy to use a different email address and still get all the benefits of Hotmail without …