And since workers want to connect to their Microsoft e-mail and documents, Microsoft has an advantage selling them mobile software.
The device is designed to work with your e-mail account on a Microsoft Exchange e-mail system--period.
Mail and Microsoft 's Hotmail and Live Mail has doubled, according to a report to be published in December by e-mail security firm MessageLabs.
That said, for users running Microsoft Windows and using Outlook as their mail client, Microsoft's MSN desktop search beats its competitors hands down, primarily because of a superior user interface that integrates better with other Windows programs.
Corporate IT departments using Microsoft Exchange for mail have also experienced problems.
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Because of the blackout, some 60 million Hotmail users worldwide can't access their e-mail, Microsoft customers can't download software updates or get online support and MSNBC.com has no audience.
The programs sift through old and new documents and e-mail far more efficiently than the search software that comes preinstalled with Microsoft Windows and the Outlook e-mail program.
For example, suppose you have received an e-mail attachment in Microsoft Office 365 mailbox.
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Jobs also reviewed plans, first detailed in March, to build new, business-friendly features into the iPhone, such as support for push e-mail, via Microsoft Exchange, and tighter security.
Microsoft scored a big coup in February, when it announced that Nokia, a longtime foe in mobile operating systems, would begin incorporating Microsoft's e-mail push technology into its phones.
While free Web services produced just 6% of the Internet's pill-hawking and scam-pitching e-mail a year ago, automated spam programs exploiting Web e-mail services now produce more than 12% of digital junk mail, with Microsoft's Webmail services alone accounting for around 4%.
Microsoft's Outlook e-mail client and its Exchange server haven't always been particularly Mac friendly.
Users of Mac OS X will soon have an e-mail program that supports Microsoft Exchange.
Microsoft is revamping its e-mail security service into a next-generation security service based on the Forefront technology of Stirling.
MSN's new "Everyday Web" theme stresses personalized information and Web-based utilities such as Microsoft's Hotmail e-mail service, not mass-market content.
Like many people, my buddy Lindy has a work e-mail address and uses Microsoft Outlook to read and store e-mails.
VideoMail provides a built-in Internet mail program, or if you prefer, it will work with other e-mail clients such as Microsoft Outlook.
The most recent case involved Hotmail, Microsoft's Internet e-mail offering.
By attacking a loophole in Microsoft's Outlook e-mail program it has rewritten laws of virus prevention and punched a big hole in PC users security systems that others can drive through.
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Exploiting the preview pane feature in Microsoft's Outlook e-mail program (which allows users to see a message in a small window before they open it) BubbleBoy can infect your PC even if you don't open the attachment it is hiding in.
The biggest news: Apple has licensed Microsoft's Exchange ActiveSync for the iPhone, allowing iPhone users to pour e-mail and calendar information living on their company's Microsoft Exchange systems directly into the iPhone.
You see the trend among employees opting to use Google e-mail and documents instead of Microsoft Office.
The Kournikova virus, which only affected those using Microsoft's popular Outlook e-mail program, went on the rampage in February.
This week Microsoft announced that its Entourage e-mail client for Mac OS X, which works with Exchange, will be available by sometime this summer.
Dell's existing service business is at the low end, little more than extended-warranty tune-ups and installing such off-the-rack systems as Microsoft's Outlook Express e-mail software.
The neatest trick, however, could be the ability to get e-mail and calendar information directly from Microsoft Exchange servers.
Microsoft will start with a hosted e-mail filter and anti-malware service.
Selling a patent portfolio of that size and scope to a company like Microsoft might mean that AOL gets lots of mail, from shareholders.
Lotus position IBM'S LOTUS DEVELOPMENT subsidiary cried foul when we wrote that Microsoft was gaining momentum in the e-mail and groupware market (Aug. 10, 1998).
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