MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.--After an hour-long discussion at a status meeting last month, the Hotmail redesign really boiled down to one key decision: one big ad, or two? After months of reworking the ...

MSN Hotmail users, guard your cookies. A simple technique for accessing Microsoft's free e-mail service without a password is in the wild and apparently being exploited. The trick involves capturing a ...

Dutch Prime Minister Jan Peter Balkenende may get booted out of office in national elections this month, but he can lay claim to being the first person in the world to get an authorized fresh Windows ...

Hotmail and I go way back. I had an account there before Microsoft bought it for a reported $400 million at the beginning of 1998, which makes the free e-mail service my longest-running online ...

Hotmail came out with an upgraded service Thursday after it aborted attempts to launch it earlier this week. The Microsoft Network experienced glitches Tuesday after the company implemented the new ...

Hotmails updates include one-click filters to show unread e-mails, for example, or ones from social networks such as Facebook. One of Microsofts goals with the “new” Hotmail was to find ways to ...

Windows Live Hotmail users that have recently been using the Web service may have noticed that it's no longer possible to add photos directly into the body of a Windows Live Hotmail message as easily ...

Software King of the World Microsoft is having a few problems with the spam filters on its Hotmail/Outlook webservice. Some users are complaining that their junk email filtering systems are tiggered ...

All the major Web-based email services have junk mail folders and spam filters that strain out obvious offenders. Categorizing messages and filtering out those you don’t want may help, but limits ...