Hotmail, already powering over 15 million phones and growing, comes to Kindle Fire

We think it’s critical that our customers can use Hotmail from any device they choose. So, in addition to making Hotmail work great on devices running Windows, we’ll continue to invest in great experiences on other major device platforms. The recent release of iOS5 and our Hotmail application for Android has made it even easier to use Hotmail on those devices, and the result has been over 12 million active Hotmail users on iOS and over 3 million active users of our Android application.

The Hotmail team is happy to announce that our Kindle Fire application for Hotmail is now live in the Kindle store and ready for download for free. The Hotmail Kindle app gives you several advantages over the native Kindle Fire mail application. Whereas the native Kindle application simply downloads your mail via POP3, with the new Hotmail app you can sync all your mail, contacts, folders, and subfolders via the more robust Exchange Active Sync protocol. Because the Kindle Fire uses a different implementation of Android, we needed to make some updates to our previous Hotmail app for Android to ensure it worked well. Now that we’ve finished the work and the app is ready, we’re excited to give customers a great Hotmail experience on the Kindle Fire. Take a look and let us know what you think.
Thanks,
David Law
Director – Hotmail Product Management

How to Make a Graph in Excel in Windows 7

In Windows 7 and other operating systems, Microsoft Excel 2010 gives you the ability to add a graph or chart to a spreadsheet. With a graph, Excel gives you a visual representation of numerical data, making interpretation of the data simpler. Use the Charts function in Excel to create charts such as line or bar graphs and pie charts using 2-D and 3-D graphics.

Instructions

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     Launch Excel 2010. Click the green "File" tab in the upper-left corner of the screen, select "Open" and then double-click the spreadsheet to which you want to add a graph.
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     Click and drag with the mouse pointer to highlight the data that you want to create a graph from. To highlight entire columns, click and drag the mouse pointer across the letters at the the top of the window. The highlighted cells turn blue.
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     Click the "Insert" tab at the top of the window, and then click a button in the "Charts" section of the toolbar to indicate the type of graph that you want to create, such as "Line" or "Pie." When you click a button, a menu appears allowing you to select the visual style of the graph, such as "2-D Line" or "3-D Line."
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     Click one of the buttons to select a visual style. The graph appears on the spreadsheet.
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     Hover the mouse pointer over the graph until the pointer turns into a four-pointed arrow. Click and drag to move the graph within the spreadsheet.
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     Hover the mouse pointer over the graph until the pointer turns into a two-pointed arrow. Click and drag to change the size of the graph.