Microsoft is moving all of its Hotmail users to Outlook.com by this summer. Here's what the hundreds of millions still using Hotmail need to know about the transition. Mary Jo Foley Mary Jo Foley has ...

Redmond is rolling out a preview of a new e-mail service that combines elements of Exchange and Hotmail into a Metro-influenced client. Mary Jo Foley Mary Jo Foley has covered the tech industry for 30 ...

Microsoft has started beta testing software that will take its Web e-mail onto the desktop. This week, Microsoft served up the first test version of Windows Live Mail Desktop, a free Windows program ...

— -- AOL's famous "You've Got Mail" catchphrase seems so quaint these days, left over from a not-too-distant era when e-mailing felt relatively novel and fresh. That's not to suggest that e-mail ...

Like all parents, Microsoft likes to tout the accomplishments of its offspring. Any conversation about Hotmail is likely to start with the fact that, at least globally, the free Web mail service has ...

Namedropping “Microsoft Hotmail” is enough to evoke shudders from many a webmail aficionado. The homepage is riddled with a deluge of options for sweeping, marking, moving, and categorizing each ...

Microsoft Hotmail hiccuped around the New Year holiday, resulting in approximately 17,000 users finding some or all of their messages missing. At the time, Microsoft officials declined to comment on ...

Let's look back at this week in Microsoft news: Windows Home Server version 2 hits public beta: Windows Home Server 2 has entered public beta. The new version offers new media streaming features, ...

Microsoft is warning Windows Live Hotmail users of a recent phishing scam that asks for the person's username, password, date of birth, and country or territory. It's not clear why the software giant ...

According to Microsoft, the widely popular Windows Live Hotmail Internet e-mail service first took a hit on Thursday, Dec. 30. Thousands of users reported logging into their accounts and noticing that ...

Just as Google levels its sights on Microsoft’s OS dominance, Microsoft is quietly adding some Bing to email provider Hotmail, nudging hundreds of millions of users toward Microsoft’s Bing decision ...