More info (and some speculation) on the “Microsoft Live” rebranding

What if you rebranded your services and nobody knew?  Isn’t the point of a brand to, you know, get people focused on your products?  Kind of hard to do that when we don’t even ... Read more »

Microsoft changes Hotmail sign in image, focus on mobile apps

Today it was noticed by @CB_27 on Twitter that Hotmail has updated the image on the sign in page of the email service. This new image advertises the mobile apps and experiences available for ... Read more »

Updated Hotmail website and Help Center

Hotmail has an updated website and Hotmail Help Center. At the Help Center you will not only find How-to articles like for example: Get mail from other email accounts in Hotmail Add contacts from ... Read more »

New Hotmail begins rolling out, coming to all customers in “next few weeks”

Just over a month ago, Microsoft revealed several new features coming to the next Hotmail update, asking users to “give Hotmail another look”. Last week, our friend Michael Gillett was also able to get ... Read more »

Hotmail Calendar gets Wave 5 M2 upgrade, other Windows Live web services to follow soon?

While browsing Hotmail Calendar today, something caught our sharp eyes as we noticed some very subtle changes to the Windows Live header. But having seen this before in internal Windows Live testing sites, we ... Read more »

Question and Answer session with the Hotmail team

I recently went to a Hotmail briefing and as many of you know I asked you to send me questions that you want the Hotmail team to answer. Well I asked as many questions ... Read more »

Microsoft’s strategy for updating Hotmail

Yesterday whilst being shown the new, soon to be released features of Hotmail I was told about Microsoft’s strategy for updating the webmail service. The strategy previously has been to release updates in waves ... Read more »

Microsoft adding a petabyte of storage to Hotmail a week and other new features

Today I visited some of the Microsoft Hotmail team in London to be shown the new features that are coming soon to the webmail service. The briefing started with Microsoft talking about where Hotmail ... Read more »

Do you have any questions about the new Hotmail?

Hello and first let me introduce myself, I am Michael Gillett. I’m a Computer Science student in the UK, I’ve been a reader of Liveside for a long time and for the past couple ... Read more »

Hotmail “featured” in iOS5 Mail

Today is one of those days where it’s probably better to just go out and play.  Apple announced its new lineup of iOS updates and devices, and pretty much everything else has ground to ... Read more »