The e-mail outage, which affected more than 17,000 Hotmail users, appears to be mostly resolved. The trouble began on Dec. 30 when the e-mail in 17,355 accounts disappeared
Online Office 2010 document editing, mobile browsing highlight Microsoft's Hotmail updates. The company's refresh is aimed at overhauling the e-mail service for business and home users
Live Documents is software as a service which lets users create, edit and collaborate on files, and is compatible with both Microsoft Office and OpenOffice.org
Microsoft Corp. has begun a months-long process of migrating users to this major upgrade of its Hotmail Web mail service. Windows Live Hotmail, dubbed as the biggest Hotmail upgrade since the Web mail service's debut in 1996, has been tested by about 20 million users since Microsoft first allowed people outside the company to try it out in mid-2005
Microsoft Corp.'s MSN network has teamed with Orange SA to deliver MSN Hotmail and MSN Messenger services to Orange's mobile phone customers across Europe.