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Microsoft: Outlook and Hotmail blackout is because of overheating server farm

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Microsoft's email administrations, Outlook and Hotmail , and also SkyDrive (its cloud benefit) experienced an extensive downtime beginning Tuesday evening. The administration interference at last kept going over 16 hours, yet the organization could reestablish the administrations prior for a few clients. While Microsoft at first didn't offer a clarification for the blackout, a post on the Outlook blog by Windows Services VP Arthur de Haan uncovered that it happened as a result of a "quick and generous temperature spike" in a server farm that stores parts of those previously mentioned administrations. As indicated by Haan, Microsoft was refreshing firmware in the server farm – a standard procedure – when servers began overheating, initiating shields that hindered clients' entrance to Outlook, Hotmail , and SkyDrive. The shields went ahead sufficiently snappy to forestall harming the servers, however the blackout still endured that long in light of the fact tha

Hotmail down for 60 minutes, Microsoft sets it up (refreshed)

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Both the web and Windows Phone Hotmail customers are experiencing difficulty marking in today.  In case you're feeling rejected by your email customer on this post-Valentine morning, don't stress, it's not your blame. Microsoft's Hotmail has been having sign-in issues for as long as hour, an issue that the organization knows about and effectively attempting to settle. We're experiencing mistake messages on both the web customer and on our Windows Phones. Checking the status page for Live administrations, just Hotmail seems, by all accounts, to be having issues, so whatever is left of Microsoft's online items like SkyDrive and LiveID should in any case be working effectively. We're mindful of sign-in issues - we're exploring and attempting to get them settled. Check status at: status.live.com — Hotmail (@hotmail) February 15, 2012 Refresh: Although Microsoft's status page still checks Hotmail as being tricky, we've now observed access r

Bot busts freshest Hotmail CAPTCHA

Spammers have broken Microsoft Corp's. most recent guard against maltreatment of its Live Hotmail email benefit utilizing a complex system of hacked PCs that get scrambled directions from a focal server, a security organization has announced. The botnet, or gathering of bargained PCs, can interpret Live Hotmail's CAPTCHA (Completely Automated Public Turing Test to Tell Computers and Humans Apart) enrollment shield in around 20 seconds, said Websense Inc. security specialist Sumeet Prasad. CAPTCHA is the term for the misshaped characters that many Web locales, for example, email administrations and online journals, use to keep spammers and digital lawbreakers from making monstrous quantities of new records. Those records are utilized to send garbage mail or messages that attempt to trick individuals into visiting malignant destinations, and are significant in light of the fact that spam channels once in a while obstruct the "hotmail.com" space address. The previo

Gmail moves past AOL as No. 3 web email benefit in U.S.

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Google's Gmail is currently the third-biggest Web email benefit in the U.S., outperforming AOL email with 37 million month to month one of a kind clients, as per new comScore gauges for July 2009 by means of TechCrunch. That puts Gmail second just to Windows Live Hotmail , with 47 million remarkable clients, and Yahoo! Mail, with 106 million interesting clients. (In examination, AOL checks 36.4 million one of a kind clients.) It was just more than multi month prior that Google's email benefit at last evacuated its longstanding "beta" name. The new comScore gauges stamp an ocean change: Gmail's interesting guests grew 25 percent this year, while AOL's declined 22 percent in a similar period. In correlation, Hotmail developed only 8 percent amid a similar period, while Yahoo! Mail expanded one of a kind guests by 16 percent. That puts Google Mail in striking separation of Microsoft's Hotmail . Which electronic email benefit do you utilize?

iCloud versus Trade, Gmail: Pick your decision shrewdly

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With iCloud out the entryway, many have battled with issues and clashes that erase everything. Would it be a good idea for you to join the iCloud fleeting trend, or does everything 'simply work' as of now? Now that Apple's cutting edge email and cloud benefit is out of the entryway, many existing MobileMe clients will basically move over to iCloud without an object, and with no problem. In the middle of the Gmail and Hotmail understudy populace, there is a dismissed MobileMe showcase. While likely in the single figures as far as marketshare rate, numerous understudies with Macs or iPhones - and there are a great deal of them - MobileMe is in any case a reasonable and strong enhancement to the outside school or college email address numerous understudies have. In any case, numerous endeavor clients - a subject seldom drew closer in my own compositions - will find that their corporate email does not play reasonable with iCloud. As hard as it might appear to look up to

Report says Hotmail misuse "spread like fierce blaze," is presently settled

Microsoft connected a genuine security opening its Hotmail secret key reset benefit a week ago, after one report claims it was generally abused. April 26, 3:00PM PDT: Microsoft confims presence of blemish and fix. See refresh at end of post. Microsoft has sent a fix for a Hotmail secret phrase reset powerlessness that was allegedly being misused in the wild for quite a long time. A report distributed today at Vulnerability-Lab depicted the weakness and gave a course of events to its revelation and fix. The release appraised the seriousness as "Basic," in light of this depiction: A basic defenselessness was found in the secret phrase reset usefulness of Microsoft's authentic MSN Hotmail benefit. The defenselessness enables an assailant to reset the Hotmail/MSN secret phrase with aggressor picked values. Remote assailants can sidestep the secret key recuperation administration to setup another secret phrase and sidestep set up insurances (token based). The token

Email startup Acompli to join Microsoft's Office group?

Microsoft may have inadvertently reported its intend to gain well known free Hotmail application Acompli. Microsoft might be on the cusp of declaring its obtaining of Acompli, the startup behind a well known free email application for expert clients. It's normal for news of a securing to spill before an arrangement has been finished. It's less normal, notwithstanding, for the break to happen through an official blog entry, which surfaced — yet without substance — in RSS channels prior today. The blog entry was a piece of the Official Microsoft Blog and had the URL: http://blogs.microsoft.com/blog/2014/11/25/microsoft-gains acompli/. The URL presently conveys a 404 page that understands: "We're sad, yet we can't discover the page you're searching for." First seen by Betanews, the post from Microsoft was created by Rajesh Jha, Microsoft's corporate VP for Office administrations and servers, the individual in charge of Office 365, Exchange, Outlook,

Know When Your Windows Live Hotmail Account Expires

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In the event that you don't utilize your Windows Live Hotmail account consistently, know that it will be erased after some season of dormancy. Know When Your Windows Live Hotmail Account Expires  Following 270 days (around 8 and a half months) without access, a Windows Live Hotmail account ends up latent. This implies all messages put away in the record are erased and no new mail is acknowledged. At the point when Your Windows Live Hotmail Will Be Deleted and Reassigned  Individuals who endeavor to send email to a latent Windows Live Hotmail account recover their message bobbed with a conveyance disappointment. You can at present utilize your record name and secret phrase to sign in to Windows Live, be that as it may. Following 360 days (five days shy of a commonplace year) of latency, a Windows Live Hotmail account is for all time erased. In the event that you don't utilize your Windows Live ID (which is your Windows Live Hotmail email address) for 365 days (about

Phishers target Google Apps and different mists

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Standpoint Web Access joins other webmail benefits as target.  Distributed storage administrations are being exposed to a phishing effort in which programmers try to take individuals' login points of interest, as per the security seller Proofpoint. Clients of Google Apps are supposedly under specific risk from the aggressors, who have made farce sites that conceivably copy the real administrations, luring unfortunate casualties with the offer of annuities exhortation. "Certification phishing remains a famous method by malware campaigners, with Hotmail Web Access qualifications joining other webmail accounts as an incessant target," Proofpoint stated, composing on the organization's blog. "As the utilization of cloud-based archives turns out to be increasingly across the board, phishing campaigners have additionally been utilizing this conduct as a draw for their messages, with a few advantages for their believability and viability." The satire p