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We think it’s critical that our customers can use Hotmail from any device they choose. So, in addition to making Hotmail work great on devices running Windows, we’ll continue to invest in great experiences on other major device platforms. The recent release of iOS5 and our Hotmail application for Android has made it even easier to use Hotmail on those devices, and the result has been over 12 million active Hotmail users on iOS and over 3 million active users of our Android application.

10 years ago this week, Bill Gates sent this Trustworthy Computing (TwC) memo to all employees. The memo called for the company to rethink its approach to products – putting security at the forefront. To capture the journey we’ve made in Trustworthy Computing over the last 10 years – the Trustworthy Computing (or TwC) Team has created this infographic on Microsoft News Center I recommend checking out.

Who’s picking the kids up? When’s that dinner party? When were you planning to tell me that you’re going on a month-long business trip to Asia?

You might have seen my post this morning about setting goals for 2012. If so, you know that I’m all about creating and setting goals for the New Year, but more so, for your lifetime. There are a lot of different ways that your PC can help you to create a new year (not just for today) but for always. So, this tech chat we’re going to talk about revival of your old PC or your old PC skills, about organization and about health and fitness planning. Plus, we’ll be giving away 4 Xbox Live Gold Membership to people who answer Q1 through Q4.

To prepare:

The Hotmail team got some great (and humbling) news recently – Hotmail was named best web application of 2011 by PC Magazine.

Hotmail is the world’s leading email service, and last year we added support for Exchange Active Sync, allowing customers around the world to sync their Hotmail inbox, calendar, and contacts to their mobile phones through the power of Exchange.  Although we’ve had this support for a year already, with the release of iOS 5 it is now even easier to

This blog post is a follow-up on the outage that occurred on September 8th. Just before 8:00 PM PDT that day, we became aware of a Domain Name Service (DNS) issue that was causing a service interruption for some some Microsoft services, including Windows Live services such as Hotmail and SkyDrive. No customer data was lost or compromised during this outage. The team has investigated the root cause and has taken immediate steps to improve.

If you've been trying to use Hotmail, SkyDrive, or our other Live properties in the last couple of hours you may have noticed problems accessing our services. We're aware of these issues and actively working to resolve them. We apologize for the inconvenience and appreciate your patience.

UPDATE 9:45 PM PT:

We believe we have restored service for all customers at this time. We will continue our investigation into the root cause of these issues and post an update following our investigation. Again we appreciate your patience and apologize for the inconvenience.

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 work.

Now you can:

Last week we asked people what sort of inbox they have. This week we want to discuss that further and what we do to organize our email based on whether you are a filer, piler, or deleter.