On Monday I shared my first impressions of Microsoft’s updated Hotmail, their free, web-based email service. Today I go into a little more detail about what is, and isn’t, possible in Hotmail. On ...

Hotmail released a new feature that will let you create multiple email addresses under the same account. This is a huge move catering to people who set up several email addresses to handle a variety ...

Q: My son has a Gmail account and tries to send emails to my Hotmail account but I don’t see his emails. We tested and I can send emails to him and he can receive mine but I don’t get his emails. My ...

In 2009, the usernames and passwords of more than 10,000 Hotmail account holders were publicly broadcast on the Internet. The account information was obtained through an official-looking email message ...

You've already heard us say great things about the newest version of Hotmail. As Rick recently pointed out, Microsoft has done some impressive things, like let you ...

I signed up to a Hotmail account in the mid nineties. Years later I signed up to a Gmail account, because it I stopped using my Hotmail account in favour of Google's service, but I made sure to login ...

Twenty years ago this week, on December 29, 1997, Bill Gates bought Microsoft a $450 million late Christmas present: a Sunnyvale-based outfit called Hotmail. With the buy—the largest all-cash Internet ...

The free email service Hotmail, now known as Outlook.com, includes built-in tools to forward suspicious messages to a junk folder to protect your security and keep your inbox cleaner. If you discover ...

Instant-messaging software is so 20th-century. These days, the IM action happens on the Web, as evidenced by browser-based services like Meebo and the IM capabilities offered by Google and Yahoo. Now ...

At the public library where I work, a community member from Haiti recently asked me for help recovering his password from his Hotmail account. Apparently his account had been compromised by someone, ...

Since Apple released Safari 4 beta to bleeding-edge users, many have reported not being able to properly access functions of Hotmail, Microsoft's flagship online e-mail service. Reported issues ...

Scratch "123456" and "password" as your Hotmail password choices. They're not going to work anymore, says Microsoft, which says it is going to forbid users of the email program from choosing such ...