Tag: hotmail

General Jan 9, 2011

Microsoft Explains The New Years Day Hotmail Outage

To test the health of the email service, Microsoft creates different user accounts with different configurations and uses scripts to simulate a normal user behavior and to report problems. After the test, the accounts are again deleted - this was where the problem arised

Articles Oct 28, 2010

Yahoo! Still Rules E-Mail, Followed By Hotmail & GMail

So you have completely moved to GMail and think Yahoo! mail is a thing of the past. Even I had a similar feeling that GMail is now the most widely used web mail service, but only till I came across some statistics published by Hitwise according to which Yahoo! Mail is still the most widely used web mail (e-mail) service around the world.