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Gmail Grew 43 Percent Last Year. AOL Mail And Hotmail Need To Start Worrying.
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| Google launched Gmail only four years ago, and it is now the fourth most
| popular e-mail service on the Web after Yahoo Mail, AOL Mail, and Windows
| Live Hotmail. In 2008, it saw some serious growth in the U.S. Google doesn’t
| break out the number of Gmail users, but comScore estimates unique monthly
| visitors. According to the latest stats, the number of people visiting Gmail
| grew 43 percent last year to 29.6 million. In contrast, the much more massive
| Yahoo Mail grew 11 percent to 91.9 million uniques. AOL Mail finished in
| second place for the year with 46.6 million uniques (plus another 7.2 million
| visitors to AIM Mail), while Hotmail actually declined 5 percent to 43.5
| million.
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http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/01/14/gmail-grew-43-percent-last-year-aol-mail-and-hotmail-need-to-start-worrying/
Google's Microsoft Complex
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| Just because Microsoft and Google share a strategy doesn't mean they're
| similar companies in other respects. Google differs from Microsoft in at
| least one fundamental way. The ends that Microsoft has pursued are commercial
| ends. For the most part, it's been in it for the money. Google, as Grimmelman
| notes, has a strong messianic bent. Google is not just out to make oodles of
| dough; it's on a crusade - to liberate information for the masses - and is
| convinced of its righteousness in pursuing its cause. Depending on your point
| of view as you look forward to the next ten years, or even the next 300
| years, you'll find Google's crusade either comforting or frightening. It's
| worth remembering that Google's chokepoint is not just an economic
| chokepoint. It's also a cultural chokepoint.
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http://tpmcafe.talkingpointsmemo.com/2009/01/13/googles_microsoft_complex/
Recent:
Microsoft insists Hotmail redesign hasn't left users out in the cold
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| MS has also apparently deleted over 1,500 comments from its Windows Live blog
| since we told a perplexed company spokesman about the grumbles being posted
| on its site yesterday.
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/11/12/hotmail_interface_microsoft_responds/
Hotmail posts decline in traffic in U.S.
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| Many Hotmail users are threatening to leave the e-mail service in the wake of
| its most recent redesign. Turns out, though, that even before the revamp,
| they were on their way out, at least in the U.S.
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http://blog.seattlepi.nwsource.com/microsoft/archives/153992.asp?source=rss
Hotmail holdouts grumble about 'pathetic' new interface
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| Microsoft isn’t having much luck with the redesign of Hotmail, which is
| currently playing havoc with thousands of user’s emails.
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/11/11/hotmail_interface_redesign_blunder/
Hotmail users bitch and moan about new interface
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| We asked Microsoft if it would respond to Hotmail users and their grumbles by
| providing the option to switch between modes, but at time of writing the
| company had not responded to our request for comment
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/11/07/hotmail_new_interface_complaints/
Microsoft breaks HotMail for Linux users?
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| A Linux-Watch reader today reported difficulties using Microsoft's Hotmail
| service with Firefox browsers running on Linux operating systems. We
| confirmed that creating a new Hotmail account was not possible, due to an
| error message suggesting a "browser upgrade."
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http://www.linux-watch.com/news/NS6023147333.html?kc=rss
Microsoft Announces Changes for Accessing Hotmail with Outlook Express
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| Important news if you currently access your Windows Live Hotmail with Outlook
| Express, come June 30th. this will no longer be possible.
|
| A change is coming for users that access Hotmail with Outlook Express.
| Outlook Express uses a protocol called DAV (Distributed Authoring and
| Versioning protocol) to access a Windows Live™ Hotmail® e-mail account.
| DAV, like POP3 or IMAP, is the way that a mail client communicates with a
| web-based mail server.
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http://www.liveside.net/blogs/main/archive/2008/04/18/microsoft-announces-changes-for-accessing-hotmail-with-outlook-express.aspx
http://tinyurl.com/43rg86
Hotmail doesn't work with Firefox 2.0: Microsoft answers to Linux users "Switch
to Outlook Express"
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| I’m the increasingly discontent owner of an Hotmail account (don’t laught, I
| subscribed back when Hotmail wasn’t owned by Microsoft). Recently, in order
| to compete with Google on the Web, Hotmail’s interface was overhauled: it now
| has a “classic” interface, which works reasonably well but is still rather
| limited, and a supposedly “Full” interface that should make it the equal of
| sites like Google Apps and Yahoo Mail/Calendar/etc.
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http://www.freesoftwaremagazine.com/columns/hotmail_doesnt_work_with_firefox_2
Related:
Hotmail engine overhaul
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| The redesign effort, even its more ambitious aspects, is not
| a total wash, however.
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| [...]
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| 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
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
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
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