My friend’s been hacked! – A unique feature to Hotmail

Email Hijacking, when hackers take the charge of your email account and use it to send spams or access your private data; is a big problem for IT industry. Maybe you or your friend may have got spam messages from one of your friends, like ad for a product. Or maybe it’s a more involved [...]

Now Recover/Retrieve deleted emails from your Windows Live Hotmail Inbox

You may be have deleted one important e-mail which you don’t know how to get it back! But now Hotmail provides ability to recover deleted emails. Microsoft has evolved Hotmail’s Deleted folder and added a link to recover messages that were deleted from Inbox. Whenever you click on it; Hotmail tries to recover deleted messages [...]

Get Hotmail Email Notifications on the Taskbar, Just Pin it!

Today Microsoft introduces an easy way to keep eyes on Hotmail Inbox updates i.e. Email Notifications. In which, pinned Hotmail site displays the number of unread messages in Taskbar since your last successful session. And it clears the counter as you read messages. Group Program Manager, Hotmail Dick Craddock says- We’ve been working on taking [...]

Microsoft introduces Hotmail Aliases to secure your account

Windows Live team is ready to take on Gmail service one again. They rolled out Alias feature to Windows Live Hotmail worldwide. The new aliasing feature makes it easy to use a different email address and still get all the benefits of Hotmail without having to change your primary email address and online identity. Email aliases let you [...]

How to enable HTTPs (SSL) and secure your Hotmail sign-in

Microsoft implemented new advanced security safeguards in new Windows Live Hotmail. Now you can enable HTTPs data encryption (SSL) to enhance the security of your entire Hotmail that helps to protect your account from hijackers while working on public computers or unsecure wireless connections. How To: To enable HTTPs for Hotmail, go to https://account.live.com/ManageSSL and [...]