Hotmail POP3 access on the way? No, it’s here! POP3 technology has now rolled out to Hotmail customers WORLDWIDE!
What is POP3? It is a protocol that allows retrieval of your emails in almost any email program that you’ve …
Kumo home page
We’ve seen a number of screen shots of Kumo.com, but this is the first one we’ve seen of the home page:
Note the pager at the bottom right.
We like this idea of deploying Kumo internally, so that MS employees …
Microsoft adCenter Analytics (was Gatineau) to shut down
According to an email to beta testers, and a blog post and a post on the adCenter website, adCenter Analytics will shut down on Dec 31, 2009, and no new beta participants are being accepted as of today. From …
Hotmail is down (Update: some access available)
Opened Twitter today to a rash of “Hotmail is Down” tweets, and sure enough, the Hotmail server is “too busy” as of 9:14 am pdt:
Online mail application server outages have been in the news recently, with a couple …
Windows Marketplace For Mobile Developer Strategy Announced!
At the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Steve Ballmer announced Windows Marketplace for Mobile. Not much said back then, but now we have some more information. Microsoft announced the developer strategy for the next generation of Windows® Phones (Windows …
PhotoSynth Launches For IPhone
I’m sure by now we all know what Photosynth is. Some of you have already played around with it too, I know we did! CNN News did too, creating a synth of Obama’s Inauguration from pictures the public emailed …
Closing Hotmail brings you to www.live.com
Just saw someone twitter about this, and seems to be true, although not sure how long this has been going on: when you sign out of Hotmail, instead of being taken to MSN.com, you are now taken to www.live.com…
Coming at Mix 09: Adding Messenger to your site gets better and (much) easier
Mix 09, Microsoft’s annual web developer conference held around this time in Las Vegas, is next week. Last year we went down to listen to the Ray Ozzie keynote, and learn a bunch about the soon to be …
Windows Live ID Customisation Now Live
Ok, so this was actually live last week, but hey. James Senior blogged last week about Live ID Customisation last week, and also commented this week that LiveWIM have changed their Live ID Sign In page. This is actually a …
Microsoft would still “like to sit down” with Yahoo! on search deal
The Times Online reports today in an interview with Microsoft COO Kevin Turner that the door is still open to a search deal with Yahoo!:
…In an interview with The Times, Kevin Turner, chief operating officer of Microsoft, extended
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