Hotmail Wave 4 gets new features like Starring items as well as displaying messages in conversations. Thus, Microsoft fulfills its promise to watch closely what users like in competitive services, like Google’s web mailer.

Turned off last month due to a security issue with Internet Explorer and Active X, the Photo feature for Windows Live Hotmail has now been fixed and made available again. The Windows Live Team announces:
Instead of adding pictures as attachments to your Hotmail messages by clicking Attach and then File and then selecting the [...]

In recent days, e-mails from spammers have surfaced spreading malware. Getting your computer infected by malware might result in your password being compromised and your Windows Live ID subsequently hijacked and abused for sending more spam. How can you identify bad mail?
Recognizing bad mail
A typical virus e-mail has an arcane subject line, such [...]

Windows Live Hotmail is great: it’s fast, reliable and doesn’t require me to install any client application but a browser. But there are also things in Hotmail that annoy me.
Marking mail as junk
The Junk filters in Hotmail are very good, as they filter most unsolicited e-mail I receive. However, some e-mail gets delivered [...]

The Windows Live team has announced the end of life for MSN Web Messenger. Since Windows Live now supports instant messaging integrated into both Hotmail and People, there is no need to maintain 2 web messengers at the same time. Additionally, site owners are free to get their own web messenger running, [...]

According to the most recent announcements, Messenger in Windows Live Hotmail is now available for customers in Brazil, Canada, China, Germany, the Netherlands, Norway, and the US. If you are living in one of these countries, you will now be able to chat with your Messenger contacts directly from your Hotmail inbox. The Hotmail team [...]

After the unexpected Hotmail outage, POP access is now available to all Windows Live Hotmail customers worldwide!
How to use POP with Hotmail
I will show you the example of Microsoft Office Outlook 2007, but other mail clients are similar.

Click “Tools”, “Account Settings…”.
On the “E-mail” tab, click “New…”.
If you are prompted to “Choose E-mail Service”, select “Microsoft [...]

Windows Live Hotmail is rolling out a new build, including POP and SMTP access from any mail client (including iPhone).
Hotmail has been supporting POP and SMTP for Hotmail Plus users for a while, but the demand for a general availablility of Hotmail POP access has been high, especially with GMail in the background, featuring all [...]

Since the roll-out of the new Windows Live Hotmail, there has been an enormous reaction of the users, mostly negative, as we see on the amount of comments to various blog posts on Windows Live Wire. Finally, it seems as if Microsoft was listening to their users and working on better compatibility and more [...]