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Blog Post: SkyDrive and Office: 7 tips for full-powered collaboration in the...

A few months ago, we shared a few challenges that customers have with today’s personal cloud storage services. College students in particular have unique needs that today’s services do not satisfy....

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Blog Post: Hotmail, already powering over 15 million phones and growing,...

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...

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Blog Post: Turn over a new leaf and switch from Gmail to Hotmail in 3 easy steps

It’s nearing the end of January, and that’s a good time to think about those New Year’s resolutions. A year ago, you might have called us crazy, but a lot has changed in the last 12 months and as a...

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Blog Post: Connect your Android device to SkyDrive with OneNote and other apps

As we design SkyDrive to reach billions of people , we know it’s important that your files are automatically available across Windows devices, while being accessible on a broad range of devices. With...

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Blog Post: Solving the attachment problem with SkyDrive

We’ve talked about our approach to connecting the file cloud, app cloud and device cloud. A key part of the work we are doing in the app cloud is to bring the benefits of cloud-based file sharing to...

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Blog Post: We aren’t surprised that Hotmail’s spam protection is the best in...

Hotmail has come a long way in spam protection and is now among the best in the industry in keeping spam out of your i nbox. Our own internal metrics, customer feedback, and even a recent third-party...

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Blog Post: SkyDrive and Windows 8

Mike Torres and I just shared a post and video on the Building Windows 8 blog that details a key step we are taking with Windows 8 towards our vision of personal cloud storage .  The post describes...

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Blog Post: The war on graymail after 90 days: Over 100 million sweeps,...

Hotmail introduced advanced features for fighting the war on graymail this past fall, and since then, customers have conquered graymail over 100 million times using features like Sweep and Schedule...

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Blog Post: An even faster version of SkyDrive

Update, April 24, 2012: Please note: Even though it works great and shows off our developer APIs, SkyCMD was our April Fool’s joke for 2012.  However, check out these real improvements to SkyDrive ....

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Blog Post: SkyDrive APIs – Bring your data to any app, any platform, any device

On Monday, we released preview versions of SkyDrive for Windows and Mac , along with updates for iOS and Windows Phone. With SkyDrive on your desktop, you can now access files in the cloud right from...

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Blog Post: An exciting few days for personal cloud storage – and SkyDrive

This week, we’ve seen a welcome update from Dropbox, a new chapter for SkyDrive and the long awaited emergence of Google Nessie. Is it only Wednesday? We’re very encouraged by the response we’ve...

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Blog Post: Six Tips to Make SkyDrive your Cloud Backpack

Earlier this year, we shared a few tips for students to work together with SkyDrive and Office on important projects—without compromising formatting or features. We heard great feedback and we look...

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Blog Post: Shorter, more useful links with SDRV.MS

If you’re like most people, when you share files via SkyDrive you typically do so directly via email. This is one reason we built the connected address book, bringing together your friends’ addresses...

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Blog Post: Updates to the SkyDrive apps for Windows and Mac

Last month we released preview versions of SkyDrive for Windows and OS X Lion , along with big updates to our iOS and Windows Phone apps. We also announced a new, more flexible approach to personal...

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Blog Post: 9 tips for working with SkyDrive on Windows PCs

We’ve received many comments and tweets about how people use SkyDrive everyday to access, create, and share across devices. In this post, Lia Yu , a product marketer on our team, shares a few of our...

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Blog Post: Update to the SkyDrive desktop app for Windows

Today, many SkyDrive users may notice an automatic update to SkyDrive for Windows (Version 16.4.6003.0710). Most of the changes in this update aren't really visible. Millions of people depend on...

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Blog Post: Keeping your Microsoft account more secure

Increasingly, it seems like you can’t read the news without seeing a headline about a security issue exposing customer account information for criminals to exploit. As a guy who works every day to...

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Blog Post: Experiencing modern Office with SkyDrive: Cloud-first. No...

Last November, we shared our thoughts on the state of personal cloud storage and our vision for connecting file, app and device clouds to address key customer problems. For example, students start and...

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Blog Post: The next chapter for the Windows Live Messenger network

More than 12 years ago we released the first version of Messenger to help people chat and keep in touch online in a more personal way. One of the unique things about IM and Messenger in particular is...

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Microsoft SkyDrive Student Collaboration Challenge OFFICIAL RULES   COMMON TERMS USED IN THESE RULES: These are the official rules that govern how the Microsoft SkyDrive Student Collaboration...

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