Windows Live Hotmail Wave 4 might get Gmail-alike features like Labeling and Archiving. LiveSino.net has published a new screenshot of the Windows Live Mail Wave 4 main window.

Sometimes when you send a message with Microsoft Outlook, the recipient only receives a “winmail.dat” attachment instead of the original ones. You can prevent this from happening by selecting the correct message format.

When I opened my mail this morning, I found a message pretending to be from Microsoft. It offered me to install a Critical Update for Microsoft Outlook / Outlook Express (KB910721), and also sent the download link.

If you have Windows Live Sync installed on your computer, you can connect a computer to a synchronized folder to synchronize files. You must install the Sync software from the Sync website, on every computer that you want to synchronize files on.
You can connect multiple computers to a personal folder, but each one must [...]

“This message contains an attachment whose file type is considered dangerous. The file has been deactivated.”
This is what I read in the Windows Live Mail preview pane, each (!) time when I receive a read receipt from a recipient who is using Microsoft Outlook. What attachment is blocked? Files like “ATT000XX.txt”!
Why are [...]

Did you have some trouble using Windows Live Mail in the past months? Its recently released bugfix version might correct the error that you experienced. According to Roger Benson, Lead Program Manager Windows Live Mail, Version 2009 QFE2 (14.0.8089.726) addresses, among others, the following bugs:

Windows Live Mail can now properly import Outlook Express [...]

Welcome to a new interview in the summer edition of the series “Windows Live and You”! Today I have invited a special guest to talk with him about his personal relation to Windows Live: let’s welcome Angus Logan, Senior Technical Product Manager for Live Services at Microsoft.
mynetx: Angus, it is a pleasure for [...]

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 [...]

What’s the site where you get Windows Live news first? — Probably your answer is “LiveSide”, and that has its reason. I had an interesting discussion with Kip Kniskern, who is one of the authors at LiveSide.net.
mynetx: Please tell me a bit about yourself. Is your life directly or indirectly involved with [...]