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Why I can’t put Tibet in my Hotmail address. Apparently it’s because “TIB” is name of a bank in Florida, and Microsoft are trying to prevent phishers from creating e-mail addresses that include the names of financial institutions.

# 10th August 2008, 10:41 pm / hotmail, microsoft, phishing, tibet

Windows Live Contacts API (via) I didn’t realise Microsoft already have a contacts API for Live (which presumably covers hotmail as well).

# 7th March 2008, 5:57 pm / contacts, hotmail, microsoft, portablesocialnetworks, windowslive

Migrating Microsoft Hotmail from FreeBSD to Microsoft Windows 2000. I’d like to see them try that with Yahoo!’s 100+ properties.

# 4th May 2007, 5:54 pm / freebsd, hotmail, microsoft, open-source, windows, yahoo

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