For many tech-savvy web users, Microsoft’s Hotmail has become a badge of ancient times, a service that was valid a few years ago but that has gone the way of AOL as a symbol of not being “up with the times” in email technology. People who see their friends using it might ask, “Why aren’t you using Gmail?” Tech-snobs aside, the service is still extremely popular and their most recent innovation may give even the tech-savvy crowd a reason to check out their old Hotmail inboxes if only to use it for the gray-area emails. When they declared war on “Graymail” a month ago, they introduced a set of tools that will…

The tech world is a heated place, with cutthroat competition and backstabbing commonplace. Microsoft has been known to be as harsh a competitor as anyone out there, particularly now that the CEO position is occupied by the sweaty blob rather than the nerdy philanthropist. The one company that hoped it would get a break and some cooperation and collaboration from Microsoft is.. Microsoft. But apparently that’s not the case. Google has had push capability on iOS since v3.0, and embarrassingly for Microsoft, it came courtesy of their ActiveSync technology. Now finally, that same technology…

Hotmail was the first widespread webmail service, but these days it lags behind Google’s Gmail and even Yahoo Mail. But that’s all about to change, as Microsoft announces some serious updates. The updates focus on making Hotmail easier to use and making the content of messages central to its user experience. By making it less cumbersome to attach and send photos, videos and documents, Microsoft hopes to claw back some users from more comprehensive services. Despite making very few updates to its webmail service in the 12 years since purchasing it, Hotmail still boasts the most users with 360…