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After a tumultuous year dogged by user frustration, Microsoft’s overhauled consumer cloud email service celebrates first birthday.

Outlook.com migration has now been completed, with 400 million users now signed up.

Firmware update causes temperature spike, which knocked over Hotmail and Outlook services earlier this week.

Updated: Hotmail problems stop users accessing emails, as Outlook migration continues.

Updated: Microsoft confirms Hotmail and Outlook are down, but fails to update service status page.

Microsoft to kick off massive marketing push for email service.

Users of Microsoft's popular web-based email service will start seeing ads, encouraging them to upgrade, from this week.

Users of Microsoft's webmail service have reported login problems that are reportedly stopping them from accessing emails.

Software giant publishes step-by-step guide to help ease Hotmail users through the Outlook.com changeover.

Microsoft forum users express dismay, with some claiming their accounts have been switched without permission.

Software giant said it's "working hard" to protect email accounts from password resetting hackers.

Hotmail changes mean you won't be able to express your love of cats in passwords anymore.

Microsoft has said sorry for an issue which led to almost 20,000 Hotmail accounts being emptied.

Microsoft's new Hotmail feature will seem very familiar to longtime GMail users.

Hotmail users get increased attachment sizes, a new-look interface and wider support for third-party applications from within your email window.

Microsoft is looking to bring its webmail up to speed with rival Google's Gmail.

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A researcher says there is evidence that not all of the Gmail and Hotmail account passwords were taken as a result of phishing.

Hotmail is phished, IBM wants to read your DNA, Amazon announces the Kindle for the UK and it's revealed that the internet was created in Harlow.

The most common password for victims of the massive Hotmail hack was '12345' suggesting security wasn't exactly at the forefront of their minds.