Microsoft Cuts Down Hotmail Spam By 90 Percent

Microsoft claims that it has cut spam in its Hotmail service by 90% from its peak in 2006, when more than 30% of all mails in Hotmail were considered spam. Today, the share is about 2%. According to the company, the 90% reduction in spam contributed in 15% less spam for the Internet.

"In the old days (you know, two years ago), the spammers just opened email accounts at one of the major providers to send spam. After all, accounts at Yahoo!, Gmail, AOL, and Hotmail are free and can send email, which is pretty much all you need to start a spam campaign," Microsoft's Dick Craddock wrote in a blog post.

"We've made tremendous progress in our battle against spam, but we know that spam and hijacking will continue to be a big problem for all service providers as long as there is economic incentive for the bad guys to do what they do," Craddock wrote. "So we're not letting up. We continue to invest in research and development to find ways to make it even harder for the spammers to get spam into your Inbox and to use Hotmail as a way of sending spam."

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