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79 days ago
When Windows Live Calendar came out of beta in January, we introduced a birthday calendar to automatically keep track of your contacts’ birthdays. We’ve just improved the birthday calendar to make it even more flexible. Whenever you add birthday information in your contact list, it appears in your calendar. But now you can also add birthdays right from inside the birthday calendar (and they’ll automatically sync with your contact list). When you add a new birthday, you can call attention to it with a special charm and you can set a second reminder (so you really don’t forget to buy that gift). If you don’t like the birthday calendar, you can turn it off or delete the whole thing. Deleting the birthday calendar doesn’t change what’s in your contact list, so you can always add the birthday calendar back later. There are a few other additions to the settings page: you can also change the default charm that goes with birthdays. And you can refresh the calendar to make ...
88 days ago
Sometimes we’re not connected to the internet or unexpectedly the service we’re trying to connect to isn’t available – we find ourselves in need of accessing e-mail offline. Windows Live provides you options when things fall down because we understand that people depend on their e-mail for information. With Windows Live Mail or Outlook Connector for Outlook, you can access your Hotmail and other e-mail accounts offline and have a richer experience than possible on the web. So when the unexpected happens, you’ll still have access to your e-mail though the comfort of the mail programs on your PC. Best, The Windows Live Team
89 days ago
Today, we are changing the way Windows Live Hotmail messages come into Microsoft Office Outlook, Outlook Express, and Entourage. While you may have to tweak some settings, you will notice additional speed and efficiency. Please check out our previous post to learn what you need to do in order to keep receiving Hotmail in Outlook, Outlook Express, or Entourage. Keep in mind, this does not affect access through the web and customers can continue to view Hotmail messages on the web at http://mail.live.com or http://www.hotmail.com. Questions or trouble updating your mail program? View the FAQ page or visit the help community. Technical details for those who are curious. Microsoft Office Outlook, Outlook Express, and Entourage use the legacy DAV protocol to access Hotmail messages. Today, we are retiring the DAV protocol. As Hotmail storage has evolved, DAV has become an inefficient solution for syncing e-mail (it downloads the whole ...
93 days ago
Want to find just the right event in your area this weekend? Worried about finding something fun to do with the kids when you’re on vacation in a new town? Try the enhanced MSN City Guides, Bing event search or any of the Zvents co-branded services around the Web to find cool happenings and immediately add them to personal or shared calendars in Windows Live. Give it a try! 1. Visit MSN City Guides at http://thingstodo.msn.com 2. Enter something like “concerts” and the name of your local town or city. In the example below, we’re searching for concerts in Mountain View, CA 3. Click on one of the events in the result list to review details. In the example below, we’ve clicked on “Alumni Concert.” You can now review the details of the event. 4. Now, to make sure that you don’t forget about the event, you can add it to your personal or shared calendars in Windows Live. Just click anywhere you see the calendar icon with Save,. 5. After you click the icon ...
101 days ago
Some of you may have noticed that lately, you can no longer add photos directly into the body of a Windows Live Hotmail message the way you used to do. The Windows Live team is constantly reviewing Hotmail to ensure quality service to our customers. During a recent review, we identified an incompatibility with Internet Explorer that caused a security flaw with photo uploads, and we made the decision to temporarily remove the feature. The Hotmail team takes security very seriously and we expect to bring back the photo upload feature by the end of September. In the meantime, you can still add pictures as attachments to your Hotmail messages, by clicking Attach, and then File, and then selecting the picture you want to include. We apologize for any inconvenience that this may cause you until this fix is complete. The Windows Live team
