Now that Black Friday is upon us, many of you surely have gift deliveries on their way to your home. And if you’re like me you probably have an inbox full of shipment tracking notifications and updates. If you aren’t already using Outlook.com, you’re missing out on the best way to keep all of your … Read more
A little over a month ago, the Outlook.com Team issued a notice that the Messaging history folder would be disappearing from Outlook.com in preparation for the further integration of Skype messaging. This is that complete notice in its entirety, sans graphics. Dear Outlook.com customer, We’re contacting you because we are making a change to the … Read more
Readers just beware new spam that just looks like your Outlook.com account has been deactivated and in order to activate it again they ask you click on a link which looks it came from mail.live.com/restoreaccount.jsp. If you look there first of all that links says mail.live.com, which is actually outlook.com or Hotmail.com URL that will … Read more
Well hello there! In an against the trend move, Microsoft has integrated Google Talk in to their email and cloud solution experience. Well then, I am hoping and preying this will make it to the Windows Phone integration! And even one say, Google Plus. Let me slow down, one step at a time. For now, … Read more
Well, I finally did it: I went and created an outlook.com email for Son’s online stuff. What brought this on? Minecraft. I’ve got Pocket Minecraft on my Kindle for him to mess with, but he wants the full version on his PC. He’s positively OBSESSED with Minecraft. So I finally went looking. I went ahead … Read more
Stephen Mesik: Outlook blog: Skype comes to Outlook.com Robert H: I will never use Skype again. Malware is running like wildfire on Skype. PCMag: New Malware Propagates on Skype, Mines Bitcoins Ramon Trotman: How? What’s the process to get infected? Robert H: Most Skype malware is by clicking links like in Facebook but there is … Read more
Microsoft introduced the ability to rename your Microsoft account by creating an “alias” which allowed users the ability to receive email. However the alias account didn’t allow for logging in since it wasn’t a full fledged priviledge account. When the renaming feature returns it will bring along with it enhanced Alias accounts which will give … Read more
Microsoft has just announced that they will be replacing Hotmail users with a new name for their service called Outlook. The highly successful Hotmail account we have all loved, and in some cases hated through the years, will be no more. Now, current Hotmail owners will have a choice between Live.com and Outlook.com. The transition … Read more