Microsoft has taken the bold, if somewhat overdue decision to kill off Hotmail. The email client that’s been around almost as long as Take That has been transformed into a much more Metro-looking version of the Outlook brand. And it’s pretty decent.
It looks like Microsoft’s finally figured out one crucial element of what makes an email client easy to use. Thing is, the transition hasn’t been completely smooth… Read more
An Internet Explorer 8 bug exposed on a security mailing list could open you up to malicious attacks on popular sites including Twitter and Hotmail. The flaw was publicised by Google man Chris Evans (no, not that one) and it seems Microsoft has left the Internet Explorer 8 loophole unplugged for some time…
When it arrived yesterday, Gmail Priority Inbox looked a little familiar to veteran Microsoft watchers. A long term project created by Microsoft Research seems to have been tinkering with the same approach to organising emails and what’s more it has the patents to prove it…
Hotmail is about to getting an upgrade that’ll mean push updates from your Microsoft-powered mail on the iPhone, Android devices and its upcoming Windows Phone 7 handset. Microsoft is activating Exchange Activesync on the Hotmail servers this Monday, bringing the feature to millions of mobiles…
Lunchtime! Time to shut down those spreadsheets, bin those reports and generally slack off. There’s gadget news to be had, and we’ve got the best way to top up on it right here: a big, condensed plate of all the latest. Read on for what’s been happening today in the world of tech!
It’s been a big day for BlackBerry. First the e-mail magnates slipped us a brand new phone, then dished up $150 million in development bounties, and now they’ve announced a tie-up with Microsoft to get Windows Live on their handsets.
