Microsoft recently retired its Hotmail Service & went all out in ensuring its users migrate safely to its newer avatar; Outlook.com. Now the revamped & reworked iteration features core integration of Google’s instant messaging platform, Google Talk, more commonly known as GTalk. How did Google agree to such a synergy? Google has a competitive product in the form of Google Mail or Gmail....

Microsoft has announced that it is launching a preview of Skype for Outlook.com. The service will kickstart in UK and will be rolled out to users in the U.S. and Germany “in the coming weeks.” Further international expansion including India is expected this summer. The move allows users to make audio and video calls and send Skype instant messages via the website once they download...

Last Friday, Microsoft announced that it had received around 418  requests to disclose information by the Indian Government in 2012. There were 594 user accounts that were specified in this request. This is the first time that the company has revealed such data. It plans to regularly release such data in its ‘Law Enforcement Requests Report’ to keep the service transparent. Microsoft released...

When Microsoft launched Outlook.com last year, it was certain that sooner or later it will phase out its regular email service Hotmail.com, it was just a matter of when, and now it is final. Microsoft is officially shifting its services from Hotmail to Outlook.com and it aims to shift all the users by the end of the year. It would face certain difficulties as people don’t like change and there...

Google’s own e-mail client Gmail, could be the number 1 e-mail client, if the company’s internal numbers are to be believed. Internet search giant, in its own findings has stated that Gmail is now being used by 425 Monthly Active Users (MAU).  In comparison, Hotmail has 360 Million MAU. Interestingly, the results are from the company’s own internal data with no external third-party verification....

We SMS more than we talk; this is a known fact now. Social networking sites, mobile apps and free SMS services are all vying for your (the consumers) attention. JaxtrSMS is the newest entrant in this space. Hotmail co-founder, Sabeer Bhatia, who is serial entrepreneur, is also part of Jaxtr Inc, the company responsible for developing this new application. JaxtrSMS will enable users to send text messages...

Last Friday, Windows Live and Hotmail went down unexpectedly, rendering millions of users offline. Microsoft released a statement saying that it became aware of the problem at about 08:30 am. Services started to be restored at 11:00 am. All the internet services that Microsoft operates like Hotmail, Skydrive and Windows Live were amongst those that were affected by the outage. A Microsoft spokesperson...

Microsoft has pulled a Google! The software giant has announced that the next version of its mobile operating system, Windows Phone 7.1 will be codenamed ‘Mango’. Mango comes with 500 new features which includes enhanced Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn integration, hands-free messaging, a multiple email inbox and the ability to chat with friends using Facebook Chat, Windows Live Messenger...

In September 2010, when Microsoft announced a feature that would let Hotmail users chat with their Facebook friends from their hotmail accounts, it was restricted to 6 countries – US, UK, France, Brazil, Germany, and Russia. Yesterday, they announced that the feature would be available to all hotmail users worldwide. This means that the 250 million Facebook users who also use Hotmail can now...

Hotmail has rolled out a new feature that allows its users to use Hotmail with any existing email address, even from domains belonging to competitors such as Gmail and Yahoo. This can be compared to the functionality provided by Microsoft Outlook, but on the web. The feature thus allows the non-Hotmail users to continue with their existing e-mail while also taking advantage of Hotmail features like...