Hotmail and live.com
Posted: Fri 12 May 2006 12:15 am
As some may have noticed recently when you goto hotmail the url would change to login.live.com ...
I've been curious about that for the past month, at first I thought it was hijacked so dug into it and was following the reasons and the beta testing of this so called 'new service' that allows multiusers or the same user to switch easily between .net passports and MSN accounts. If you're only using the browser InternetExplore (IE) you probably wont have hit the issues across other browsers like Firefox and Opera which basically, wont log you into your email and a few other areas.
The live.com project at the moment is not supporting other browsers - they dropped the support while rushing to get this going, now standard Opera and a test from one of my other PCs with Firefox fails login at the HTTPS/certificate - meaning all I'm getting is a dead link whereas IE logs in with no problem.
It's a pain, and a royal one at that too, because I don't use MSN Messenger either but Trillian to connect to the Messenger service with Opera as the link catcher and default email browser ... so I had to spend the last hour customising some settings to force it all to work, its not perfect but it'll do.
Generally, not pleased as I use Hotmail regularly and I dislike being forced into using IE and other MS only products. I've had my Hotmail account long before it was ever an MS holding and I figure it highly annoying with all these so called little updates and 'features' essentially streamlining my choice of preference on which software I use - for me it is just another way of streaming ads, spyware and other bloat and entirely complicating a simple service that never needed fixed... but anyway, just thought I'd mention that to people here, mainly the non-IE based users in case they couldn't connect to their Hotmail and didn't know what was happening.
I've been curious about that for the past month, at first I thought it was hijacked so dug into it and was following the reasons and the beta testing of this so called 'new service' that allows multiusers or the same user to switch easily between .net passports and MSN accounts. If you're only using the browser InternetExplore (IE) you probably wont have hit the issues across other browsers like Firefox and Opera which basically, wont log you into your email and a few other areas.
The live.com project at the moment is not supporting other browsers - they dropped the support while rushing to get this going, now standard Opera and a test from one of my other PCs with Firefox fails login at the HTTPS/certificate - meaning all I'm getting is a dead link whereas IE logs in with no problem.
It's a pain, and a royal one at that too, because I don't use MSN Messenger either but Trillian to connect to the Messenger service with Opera as the link catcher and default email browser ... so I had to spend the last hour customising some settings to force it all to work, its not perfect but it'll do.
Generally, not pleased as I use Hotmail regularly and I dislike being forced into using IE and other MS only products. I've had my Hotmail account long before it was ever an MS holding and I figure it highly annoying with all these so called little updates and 'features' essentially streamlining my choice of preference on which software I use - for me it is just another way of streaming ads, spyware and other bloat and entirely complicating a simple service that never needed fixed... but anyway, just thought I'd mention that to people here, mainly the non-IE based users in case they couldn't connect to their Hotmail and didn't know what was happening.