Hotmail PMs work too hard
Aditya and Omar only made it 10ft from the conference room before they felt the need to start working again... they worked a bit then walked the next 10ft to their offices.…
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I pity the fool!
Headline from the Onion: Gmail User Pities Hotmail User A quote: "I feel so bad for you, needing to squeeze into 250 MB of storage space," I love it! Read the…
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…
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…
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,…
Safe list, address book, mailing list… what’s the deal?
Receiving mail from friends shouldn’t involve searching through a bunch of potency ads in your junk e-mail folder. If you want to make sure you receive these messages you need to tell…
More work news
Exciting news was announced at the end of last week, I am now the Lead Program Manager for the Hotmail feature team! Yay me! I'm really excited about the new challenges coming up…
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…
Hmm, I was going to charge more than that
While I was only joking about selling addresses (see comments) it appears the AOL workers are a little less loyal to their users. A snippet of the whole article from Reuters: US Charges…
The official word
The official press release is now available on MS Press Pass. Enjoy! In related news, Omar is also stoked about the change. :)
The cat’s out of the bag…
Yep, it looks like the articles are starting to roll off the presses, even before any press releases are out from MS Press Pass. How do they do it? :) Here's what's important: we're…
Hotmail sold my e-mail address to spammers!
How often have you heard this? Perhaps even thought it? I know I’ve been asked about it more often than I can count and see it crop up on every web board…
Out of block space?
When talking to strangers about Hotmail the most frequent complaint tends to be about Spam. This is often followed by the complaint that their block list is full and they can't block…