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MSN Hotmail

  • Blogs

    March 28, 2011

    Microsoft Leaves Hotmail Accounts Open to Spying in Iran, Syria, Bahrain, and Elsewhere

    ​For an unknown span of time, Hotmail accounts in some of the world's most oppressive and volatile countries were left without access to Microsoft's normal e-mail security features. The problem is apparently fixed now--but only after a flurry of online anger forced Microsoft to act.

  • Blogs

    July 22, 2010

    Microsoft's New Slogan Sucks Less Than Normal!

    ​"Be What's Next" might not move more Zunes or convince someone to buy a Windows Phone years after they could have had an iPhone. But at least it's not the "New Busy," that ubiquitous "ball of syntactical confusion" and marketing gobbledigook that was supposed to convince people to use Hotmail ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 1, 2010

    Just Who Is This Spam Bodyguard, and Is He Fixing to Kick Gmail's Ass?

    ​Not since Snickers' inane "Patrick Chewing" billboards has an ad campaign proven to be so deliciously retarded/genius (in the ad game, the line between the two is essentially nonexistent) as Microsoft Hotmail's "New Busy" pitch. But really, just what the fuck is a "spam bodyguard?"

  • Blogs

    May 25, 2010

    Microsoft's New Hotmail: No Longer Just for People Stuck in 1996

    Say what you will about Hotmail, but that is one bad-ass looking carrier pigeon.​Microsoft's Hotmail has gone largely untouched since the mid-90s when the Redmond giant swallowed it whole via acquisition. Which means that seeing the @hotmail.com signature has been shorthand for "I'm about to r ... More >>

  • News

    May 12, 2010

    Old and In the Way

    Is Pioneer Square preserving itself to death?

  • News

    April 21, 2010

    Microsoft's "New Busy"; Sounds a Lot Like the Old Tone-Deaf

    Is Pioneer Square preserving itself to death?

  • Blogs

    April 19, 2010

    The Man Behind Microsoft's Perplexing New Ad Campaign--"The New Busy"-- Explains What He Had in Mind

    Seattleites will soon be tested to see if this is doing its job.​We had occasion last week to wonder about Microsoft's strange new ad campaign for Hotmail called "The New Busy," which is currently colonizing buses, billboards, the sides of buildings, email signature lines, and radio airtime al ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 14, 2010

    New Ad Campaign for Hotmail Is Everything We Expect From Microsoft--Awkward, Baffling, Hard to Escape

    Even this guy doesn't understand "the new busy."​As Caleb observed yesterday, even on those occasions when Microsoft has a really great product to offer, somehow the presentation is always a little...off. They're just trying too hard. Or overthinking. This results in embarrassments such as t ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 16, 2010

    On the eP-I's Birthday, One Question Lingers: Where's Robert Jamieson?

    Have you seen this nattily-dressed scribe?​Thursday marks the first birthday of the online-only Seattle Post-Intelligencer, which is a rose-colored way of commemorating the first anniversary of the death of the print P-I. In the year since the presses stopped, the slimmed-down eP-I has managed ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 24, 2008

    Loose Change You Can Believe In

        If you want to spread the wealth around, this holiday season, why not start by giving your friends, and any forlorn Republicans you might know, collectible President Barack Obama Inaugural Coins.   Courtesy of late-night TV, you too can own a piece of history for just the low, lo ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 1, 2008

    I Thought Nothing Would Make Me Give Up Yahoo! Mail

        If you want to spread the wealth around, this holiday season, why not start by giving your friends, and any forlorn Republicans you might know, collectible President Barack Obama Inaugural Coins.   Courtesy of late-night TV, you too can own a piece of history for just the low, lo ... More >>

  • News

    March 15, 2006

    Microsoft's Big Bet: Win With the Web

    Bill Gates is revamping Microsoft's core product with a souped-up, Web-linked version dubbed Windows Vista. Due later this year, it's the biggest rollout in a decade, with high-stakes implications for the company's dominance.

  • News

    June 2, 2004

    Microsoft's Sacred Cash Cow

    A former Microsoftie says addiction to Windows revenue, mediocre products, and missed opportunities could doom Seattle's most successful company.

  • News

    January 28, 2004

    Windows is Part of the Problem

    In a world of worms like Mydoom, is Microsoft getting serious about spam? Yes and maybe.

  • News

    July 9, 2003

    Spam on the Lam

    Why the scourge of the Internet might be unstoppable.

  • News

    December 18, 2002

    Spamazon.com

    Online consumer beware: 'Trusted' retail partners don't honor Amazon's privacy policy—or your marketing preferences.

  • Music

    July 31, 2002

    Face Dances

    Will the real Slim Shady please stand up?

  • News

    April 25, 2001

    The Browser

    Encrypt it

  • News

    August 9, 2000

    Lost in the mail

    Encrypt it

  • News

    November 24, 1999

    Enlightened exploitation

    An Indian's message to the WTO: Hands off free trade!

  • News

    September 29, 1999

    More dispatches from the privacy front

    An Indian's message to the WTO: Hands off free trade!

  • News

    September 22, 1999

    To Bill, with thanks

    An Indian's message to the WTO: Hands off free trade!

  • News

    September 8, 1999

    Make Money Fa$$$t!!!

    Signed, Bill G.

  • News

    June 23, 1999

    Letters

    "To think that one little dog could create such anarchy among the opressive Great Society that loops Green Lake is strangely comforting to me."

  • News

    March 10, 1999

    Drugstore.com: Anybody home?

    "To think that one little dog could create such anarchy among the opressive Great Society that loops Green Lake is strangely comforting to me."

  • News

    March 3, 1999

    E-Mail

    Where does Slate want to go today?

  • News

    April 15, 1998

    If you must spam

    Where does Slate want to go today?

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