Hotmail’s war on graymail: it’s working

About two months ago, Hotmail introduced a set of new features to combat what Microsoft is calling “graymail”: that is mail or newsletters that you may have signed up for or opted into, but ... Read more »

Hotmail: best at fighting spam? (Updated, study commissioned by Microsoft, executed independently)

According to a new study by Cascade Insights, as cited by an Inside Windows Live post, Microsoft’s Hotmail narrowly beat out Gmail (and they both significantly out-performed Yahoo! Mail, and an unfiltered web host ... Read more »

Logging in to Hotmail (with less spam!)

A couple of posts of interest on the Inside Windows Live blog this week, both involving Hotmail. The first, one we held back on posting yesterday as it wasn’t working yet here (and still ... Read more »

What’s up with Spaces: Evolving, or Dead Man Walking?

After what seems like years of silence over the status and fate of Windows Live Spaces, Senior Lead Program Manager Tony East blogged yesterday about the beleaguered blogging platform.  In “The Evolution of Windows ... Read more »

LiveSide: the latest on Link Spam

If you’d been watching our membership counter in the past week or so, you would have noticed that we’ve gained about 300 users this past week, with more coming in all the time.  Normally ... Read more »

Jamie gets mad at spam and Spaces; and hears about new anti-spam measures

Jamie Thomson, an avid blogger and Windows Live enthusiast, blogs regularly on his Spaces blog about Windows Live, but today he had enough.  Having to deal with and delete 51 comment spam posts on ... Read more »

Windows Live and SkyDrive: safe havens for spam?

A blog post today on a Washington Post blog, Brian Kreb’s Security Fix, pointing to the Spamhaus.org Top 10 list, reports that Windows Live, through live.com and livefilestore.com domains, has vaulted to be the ... Read more »

Windows Live Hotmail “CAPTCHA” security compromised; bot attacks in 6 seconds or less, according to security blog

Via Ars Technica The Websense Security Labs blog is reporting that a new bot threat is capable of defeating the Windows Live Hotmail CAPTCHA security measure, and can break that code in less than ... Read more »