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Microsoft Office Live Small Biz suffers outage, possibly lost e-mail
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| "Outages you can understand, but the outright loss of data? They should be
| ashamed of themselves, being the biggest computer company in the world," said
| Joe Reilly, owner of Marine Wireless Internet in Fort Lauderdale, Fla.
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http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=9113603&intsrc=hm_list
A 'few' similar examples below.
Recent:
Admins accuse Microsoft of Draconian Hotmail cap
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| Life can be tough when you're one of the globe's biggest email providers.
| Just ask Hotmail. Users get upset enough when come-ons for Viagra slip
| through the cracks of the Microsoft-owned service. But there's just as much
| hell to pay when its war on spam snuffs out legitimate emails.
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/10/09/limits_on_hotmail/
It’s ME vs. MICROSOFT - Who Will Win ?
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| Now, the only problem with #1 is that IT DOES NOT WORK. When Microsoft
| blackholes your email, or bounces it with “550 Your e-mail was rejected for
| policy reasons on this gateway.“, no amount of client whitelisting is going
| to help (I tried it). This leaves me with option #2 - well I say “F-You
| Microsoft, I’m not paying for YOUR STUPID MISTAKES!”
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http://success.grownupgeek.com/index.php/2007/09/28/its-me-vs-microsoft-who-will-win/
If Intent Can Be Proven, Microsoft Could Face Millions Of Mail Fraud Charges
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| The final results bore out the "conventional wisdom." If emails were donuts,
| Hotmail would be HomerSimpsonMail. I don't need to reiterate the figures,
| there they are in blue and red. But for a Hotmail account to destroy up to
| 81% of all emails with attachments prior to their delivery to a "generic" ISP
| email account is nothing short of absurd, as these Hotmail accounts were not
| the free variety, but the fully paid ones. Compare those figures to the ones
| where the generic ISP email accounts exchanged emails with attachments and
| you will clearly see the difference. The worst performance was in making 2%
| Vanish.
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http://hubpages.com/hub/Hotmail_Fails_To_Deliver_Up_To_81_Of_All_Attachment_Emails
Botnet army' behind tenfold rise in 'attachment' spam
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| "No one but the spam group knows how many PCs they can control with this
| spambot, it is assumed to be a high five figure number. If each of the PCs is
| instructed to send 200-300 spam messages containing a PDF attachment the
| spammers can send hundreds or millions of spam messages in a day - equivalent
| to 25 percent of all spam sent on a given day."
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http://www.itwire.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=13866&Itemid=1054
Hotmail engine overhaul
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| The redesign effort, even its more ambitious aspects, is not
| a total wash, however.
|
| [...]
|
| With Hotmail, Microsoft was at the end of its development rope.
| Every new feature basically had to be "hacked" into the code.
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http://news.zdnet.com/2100-9588_22-6181819-2.html?tag=st.next
A Hybrid Approach to E-Mail: The Best of Both Worlds
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| Given corporations' existing investments and their potential need to
| support additional Microsoft Exchange-compatible applications in the
| future, this hybrid open/proprietary approach will only work if it
| allows users to drop in an e-mail server without making changes to
| desktops or infrastructure.
|
| [...]
|
| A better approach employs a product that is compatible at the
| network-protocol level with the existing infrastructure. Outlook
| on the desktop will "think" it is talking to Exchange when it is
| really talking to the new Linux e-mail server, and end users do
| not know they are on a different server. IT professionals get a
| Linux e-mail server with higher performance, that uses lower-cost
| storage, and that works with existing datacenter applications such
| as Active Directory.
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http://www.linuxinsider.com/rsstory/57232.html
Hotmail's antispam measures snuff out legit emails, too
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| Hotmail users and email server admins, beware: you may be unknowingly
| caught in the crossfire of Microsoft's war on spam. Unintended
| casualties include legitimate emails from domains with
| well-established reputations, which are systematically blocked
| with absolutely no notice and little recourse.
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/05/01/hotmail_friendly_fire/
Hotmail still riddled with spam
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| Microsoft has admitted that up to 98 per cent of messages sent to
| ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
| Hotmail addresses are spam.
| ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
|
| [...]
|
| The findings will disappoint Microsoft chairman Bill Gates, who
| predicted at the 2004 Davos World Economic Forum that spam would
| be "eliminated" within two years.
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http://www.vnunet.com/vnunet/news/2188226/hotmail-riddled-spam-admits
Vista: What To Do When You Cannot Delete a Message in Windows Mail
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| A number of users are experiencing problems with Windows Mail and
| deleting messages from the Inbox and Outbox. The message will first
| become unviewable in the reading pane and will then generate an
| error when you try to delete it.
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http://www.tech-recipes.com/rx/2270/vista_what_to_do_when_you_cannot_delete_a_message_in_windows_mail
Microsoft looking into Hotmail, Messenger problems
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| Microsoft engineers were looking into problems with Windows Live
| Hotmail and Live Messenger on Thursday after users reported
| problems getting onto the services.
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http://news.com.com/2061-10805_3-6175597.html
Microsoft shipped OneCare unfinished?
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| Since shipping in May, OneCare has failed industry tests and exposed
| users to attack because of a security flaw in the antivirus engine.
| The application also incorrectly flagged Gmail as a virus and in some
| cases quarantined or even deleted complete in-boxes when a single
| e-mail was laden with a virus.
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http://news.com.com/2061-10789_3-6168629.html?part=rss&tag=2547-1_3-0-20&subj=news
Microsoft is the world's biggest cause of zombie remailers
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| In China, it would take about one and one-half years wages (for the
| average Chinese) to buy a legitimate copy of Windows Vista. If you
| could find it here.
|
| Microsoft is the biggest cause of zombie remailers in the world,
| because they make noises, but do not do anything to address the
| real digital inequities in the world.
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http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=38202
Company Sues Over Racist E-Mails
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| The company said they were created using Microsoft Corp.'s "Hotmail" e-mail
| service and purport to be from a Merrill Lynch regional administrative
| manager.
|
| [...]
|
| David Bowermaster, a Microsoft spokesman, said the company protects the
| privacy of its customers but will comply with court orders, including
| subpoenas and search warrants. He said the company "opposes discrimination in
| any form and will take swift action when it learns its products or services
| are being used in an abusive or harmful manner."
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http://biz.yahoo.com/ap/071031/merrill_lynch_emails.html?.v=3
Spam levels reach 96 percent
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| Global email security and archive service provider, SoftScan, says that in
| October the percentage of email that was blocked by its servers reached an
| all-time high of 96.10 percent, a sure indication that spammers are still
| making money.
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http://www.itwire.com/content/view/15221/1054/
Microsoft having problems with Hotmail server?
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| Forums are alight with posters who report that they haven't been able to
| receive messages sent through Hotmail since November 26. Some have also
| expressed annoyance that they can't reach Microsoft directly to report the
| problem.
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http://www.itwire.com/content/view/15577/1054/
Study: 95 percent of all e-mail sent in 2007 was spam
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| There was a time--2004 to be precise--when spam "only" consumed 70 percent of
| all e-mail. Those were the good old days. Today, as Barracuda Networks'
| annual spam report shows, upwards of 95 percent of all e-mail is spam. In
| 2001, the number was 5 percent.
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http://blogs.cnet.com/8301-13505_1-9831556-16.html?part=rss&subj=news&tag=2547-1_3-0-20
Comcast starts blocking email willy-nilly
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| After much shouting Comcast has lifted the block on the IP range. But this
| seems to be a problem with several US ISPs. For example, one ISP in Florida
| and another in California are convinced that every email from Bulgaria must
| be spam and is refusing to receive mail with a .bg ending.
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http://www.theinquirer.net/gb/inquirer/news/2007/12/21/comcast-starts-blocking-email
Virgin Media taps Microsoft in lengthy email outage
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| A mysterious configuration problem was identified on one of VM's eight email
| server clusters last Wednesday. Microsft engineers have struggled to identify
| the cause, forcing several reboots.
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/02/18/virgin_blueyonder_email_outage_microsoft/
Is Microsoft still having Windows Live outage problems or not?
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| After a full day of downtime for many Windows Live users on February 26 — an
| outage the reasons for which Microsoft has declined to explain, but claimed
| was resolved on February 26 — some users still seem to have been having
| ongoing service-access problems.
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http://blogs.zdnet.com/microsoft/?p=1228
Full circle: How Microsoft is trying to eradicate email
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| There are millions of these systems out there, according to an article from
| USA Today. Millions.
|
| The mainstream media consistently use the term "computers" when they make
| forays into this realm. Yes, they are computers, but they're not just any
| computer -- they are all running Windows. All of them. Let's not mince words
| here: Botnets are comprised of compromised Windows systems. Thus, Microsoft's
| massive security failures are at the very core of the spam problem.
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http://weblog.infoworld.com/venezia/archives/016395.html
Microsoft to kill Hotmail access via Outlook Express
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| The worst part is that Windows Live Mail requires the Windows XP SP2
| operating system, or newer. That means that Microsoft has effectively screwed
| Outlook Express users on Windows 2000 and earlier. Now, I'm all for progress,
| but this is a poor way to handle the protocol change. I've got news for you
| Microsoft: users prefer being able to access their mail inefficiently, as
| opposed to not at all. These users will either have to go back to the browser
| for their e-mail, or use a non-Microsoft e-mail application.
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http://arstechnica.com/journals/microsoft.ars/2008/04/18/microsoft-to-kill-hotmail-access-via-outlook-express
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