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John again - In 2012, Microsoft (including Skype) received a total of 75,378 law enforcement requests. Those requests covered a total of 137,424 accounts. ~18% of those requests resulted in no data being supplied. ~80% resulted in non-content (meta-data) information. ~2 % resulted in disclosure of actual customer content. You can get all the details, including actual numbers and our 2012 law enforcement requests report from this blog post

You could always ask Marissa Mayer

You don't have to worry about arrows with email.

-Steve

Hey, this is John from the Outlook.com team.

Outlook.com provides customer data only when we receive a legally binding order or subpoena to do so. We do not provide any government with direct access to emails or instant messages. Full stop. In addition, we only ever comply with orders for requests about specific accounts or identifiers, not on an aggregate basis. You can find more details on our blog entry from July 16

Hey, this is Steve from the Outlook.com team.

It wouldn't be an AMA session without an IMAP question :) I’m excited to announce that starting right now we DO support IMAP, and we wanted you folks to be the first to know. Go check it out.

IMAP

o Incoming IMAP mail server: imap-mail.outlook.com

o Incoming IMAP mail server port: 993

o Encryption: SSL

SMTP

o Outgoing SMTP mail server: smtp-mail.outlook.com

o Outgoing SMTP mail server port: 587

o Encryption: TLS

We’re also supporting OAuth so that all sorts of 3rd party apps and services can easily and safely integrate with Outlook.com. We’ll have a blog post up soon with more details, including a description of some partners who are launching support today: TripIt, Sift, Slice, motley*bunch, Unroll.me, OtherInbox, and Context.IO.

And remember, you heard it here first!

Dick, here. Yeah, I really liked this feature, too, and sucked to have to take it out. The truth is that just wasn't supportable from a security standpoint. Eric Doerr, who manages that Microsoft Account team, wrote a blog post about it that explains more.

Eric's post also talks about setting up aliases which is a good way to do what you want with the Dick pictures.

Also: Please stop sending pics of me to your gf. No kidding. That's just creepy.