Microsoft did enable full session HTTPS encryption for their Hotmail email service back in November 2010. This was regarded by experts and users alike as a step in the right direction, considering that SSL connections improve security significantly over standard HTTP connections. Less than a year later more than two million users have opted in [...]

Categories: Email, Security

We have already mentioned on Saturday that Microsoft would improve the security of their email service Hotmail by offering HTTPS connections as an alternative to standard HTTP connections. Back then the feature was not available for all Hotmail users, as Microsoft rolled it out in batches to ensure an error free transition. The Hotmail Sign [...]

Categories: Email, Security

Setting up new email accounts can be a tedious and complicated task. Many users do not like this initial configuration, as it requires quite some work to add the incoming and outgoing email servers, ports, security settings, and account login information. That’s why several email programs have added features to automatically discover most of the [...]

Categories: Email

Microsoft on Monday said that they started to improve the email service Hotmail with security updates to protect legit user accounts from being hijacked. The term hijacker refers to malicious users who manage to get access to email accounts of Hotmail users, either by brute force, phishing or other forms of social engineering. Like Microsoft, [...]

Categories: Email

Windows Live Mail is a messaging software that is part of Microsoft Windows Live. Windows Live Mail has replaced Outlook Express in Windows 7. Windows Live Mail users who work with the messaging program on a day to day basis might have noticed that it is not possible to minimize the program to the system [...]

Categories: Email, Software, Windows

Mail Viewer is a standalone, portable software program for Microsoft Windows operating systems that can display a wide variety of formats used by Microsoft in its interface. It can read and display .idx, .mbx and .dbx message databases used in Microsoft Outlook Express 4,5 and 6 as well as Windows Vista Mail and Windows Live [...]

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The public beta downloads of Windows Live Wave 3 will be available for everyone later today. If you cannot wait to get your hands on the newest beta of Windows Live you can download the installers right away which will download the selected applications directly from the Microsoft servers. The installer lets you choose the [...]

Categories: Software, Windows