Hello all, Windows Live Hotmail had an event on 11/3/09 which caused the data loss for a small percentage of our user base - we've created an article that you can view here that has more details. If you have any questions please click the "Ask a question"... More

Unfortunately, on November 3 rd , 2009, Hotmail suffered an outage that has affected a fraction of one percent of all of our customers. The affected accounts are working and receiving mail normally now, but email stored, received, or saved in those inboxes prior to... More

Excellent advice DanH - we also have a couple of other articles about what to do to protect your safety online. http://windowslivehelp.com/solutions/safety/archive/2009/04/29/recent-reports-of-account-hijacks.aspx http://windowslivehelp.com/solutions/safety/archive... More

Kelvin, Are your domains using qmail? If so there's a known bug which we are currently hotfixing where we incorrectly append a bare LF in the taglines of some outgoing messages. We plan to have the hotfix site wide very soon, but pending a full resolution you should... More

We haven't made any announcements regarding support for 64 bit OSes with the Photo Upload Tool, and it works fine in Win7 (as long as it's the 32 bit version). As I mentioned in a previous post, if you're still having problems with the Photo Upload Tool... More

[quote] This customer implies that the message they are composing is not only saved, but also posted ... "If you compose a msg within a live group then every 3mins it "SAVES" & POSTS your msg whilst you are still writing ...... If you take 15 minutes... More

Oh I misunderstood - Live Groups is completely seperate and has nothing to do with the Auto Save draft function in Hotmail. If they recently added an auto-save draft feature it's merely a coincidence (I don't know anything about Live Groups so I can't confirm... More

[quote] I noticed that the saving to drafts mode also occurs in Gmail. perhaps others - but that is all I use at this time. This is more evidence to me that homeland security under Janet Napalitano has crossed the line of privacy rights. Pattygirl2[/quote] The government... More

Ward12 - I'm sorry you're running into these problems, but we are trying to get them fixed. Unfortunately we're not exactly sure where the problem lies which is why we're requesting the trace information. If you're still interested in helping, you... More

A disable feature is something we're looking into for a future version - but it's not something that's going to be available in the near future unfortunately (and despite your assertion it's not something that can easily be implemented if for no other... More