The beta tag comes off Windows Live Hotmail
It was a long road, lots of research, lots of development, a private beta and two years of public beta... and now Windows Live Hotmail is officially out of beta. I want…
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Flashy interview for live.com – surely my 15 minutes is up now
Earlier this spring Leah and I sat down with a videographer to talk about Live.com I'm such a geek and I could go on for hours talking about the stuff we do...…
CNet’s piece is up on the Hotmail team
Several weeks back Ina Fried from c|net came to campus and interviewed a bunch of people. Her piece is now up on c|net news.com. It's a good read to give folks a…
New ship it!
It's a little hard to read, but it says "MSN Wave 10 Hotmail. April 7th 2005" IMAGE_035.jpg IMAGE_036.jpg
Microsoft (and Hotmail specifically) had no hand in indictment of Chinese Journalist
According to Reuters, a Chinese Journalist, Li Yuanlong was charged with Subversion for sending e-mails via a Hotmail account. The indictment did not come, however, with help from Microsoft. The wife of…
A place to get your help on
The support team for Windows Live Mail has put up a new blog with a bunch of great information for users (and prospective users) of the Windows Live Mail Beta. There are…
Patience
I just posted to the team blog about upcoming improvements to the Windows Live Mail beta. The languages we were hoping to roll out back in December should be coming out very…
Windows Live Mail supports more browsers
Ellie has written a great post on the Windows Live Mail team blog about the yeoman's work that has gone into the product to support older browsers. Ellie worked with a team…
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…
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…
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…
Some positive reaction to our team blog
Michael Bazeley of the San Jose Mercury News (the paper in Si Valley) picked up on our team blog and, from the tone of the short post, was happy with what he…
Out of the closet
By Internet time-scale this is very old news: the Hotmail team is working on a new product, some people have already gotten a glimpse via the mail beta. "Mail beta," you say,…
Hey, I needed that!
There are times when you need to get a file out of your Hotmail account but the server has flagged the file as dangerous and won’t let you at it. This can…
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: