August, 2011

Hotmail Calendar has more than 18 million customers creating more than 1 million events per month. We're happy to announce that we've just released an update to Hotmail Calendar that addresses the most common request we get: improving the way reminders...

Today we are beginning to re-enable the ability to create new Linked IDs. This change is rolling out in the next couple days and should be complete this week. For some customers – particularly power users – you’ve told us that it’s essential to be able...

Last year, we shared some data about the behavior patterns of people using email. We found that we could group them neatly into three types based on their behavior—Filers, Pilers, and Deleters (we previously used the term “Purgers” instead of “Deleters...

There are a lot of bad things on the Internet, and few are worse than phishing scams. But there is a certain class of phishing scam that has earned a special level of disdain and disgust, at least from me. I’m talking about the phishing scams that target...

In our war on spam, we’re making real progress. We’ve cut spam in Hotmail inboxes by 90% from its peak. We’ve played a key role in reducing spam on the Internet by 15% from its peak. And we’ve made it harder for spammers to use Hotmail to send spam –...

One of the wonderful and difficult things about building software for hundreds of millions of customers is that any change you make is an opportunity to either delight or annoy your customers. Sometimes you do both. Over the past several years, we’ve...

Since releasing the latest version of our developer platform , we’ve gotten a number of requests for code samples on popular smartphone platforms such as iOS as well as for Microsoft technologies like C# and ASP.NET. Today we’re pleased to announce that...