Blast from the past: Can you name the most popular Web sites from 1996? In 1996, the internet was little more than a sparkle in Al Gore’s eye. Mark Zuckerberg was 12. Google was… Read More
Microsoft defends its Hotmail snooping in Windows leak investigation Responding to criticism of its investigation into an alleged leak of company trade secrets, Microsoft acknowledged overnight that it searched… Read More
Microsoft builds Google Chat into Outlook.com webmail in new bid for switchers Microsoft is integrating Google Chat into Outlook.com, attempting to eliminate one of the factors that prevents Gmail users from switching… Read More
Hotmail is officially toast, but Microsoft says Outlook.com is on fire Microsoft today announced that the migration from Hotmail to the new Outlook.com is officially complete and that there are now more… Read More
Microsoft: Overheating datacenter caused Outlook.com outage A firmware upgrade failure at one of Microsoft’s datacenters caused the facility to overheat and shut down access to Outlook.com… Read More
Outlook.com arrives: Microsoft gets aggressive in new bid to dethrone Gmail Microsoft is officially launching Outlook.com on Tuesday — taking its new consumer email service out of preview mode and starting… Read More
Podcast GeekWire Podcast: Where The Hell is Matt? On our show! Even if you don’t recognize Matt Harding’s name, you’ve probably seen one of his videos. He’s the globetrotting YouTube star… Read More
Farewell, Hotmail: Microsoft previews Outlook.com, ending longtime webmail brand First things first: Yes, you can keep your @hotmail email address, if you want. Microsoft, however, will be leaving the… Read More
Microsoft Hotmail soars on iPhone and Android, now available on Kindle Fire Microsoft’s Windows Live Hotmail has surpassed 12 million active users on Apple iOS devices — a dramatic climb resulting from… Read More
Hotmail, MSN suffer outage My wife just tried to log on to her Hotmail account, but no dice. A few minutes later a GeekWire… Read More
Microsoft updates SkyDrive, trying to stand out in a cloud Microsoft plans to roll out a series of updates to its free Windows Live SkyDrive service later today, trying to give the… Read More
‘Hoarders’ psychologist helps me stop being a digital packrat A couple weeks ago I cleared more than 10,000 emails from my primary personal webmail inbox, dating back almost three… Read More
Stats: Hotmail still on top worldwide; Gmail gets bigger While researching this morning’s story about the latest interactive features from Microsoft’s Windows Live Hotmail, I realized it had been… Read More
Hotmail gets interactive with Netflix, Posterous, LivingSocial Microsoft’s Hotmail team today will show how more companies plan to use its “Active Views” technology — interactive email messages… Read More
