Hotmail Shows Message Counts When Pinned In IE9

Angus Kidman

Published 10 years ago: April 8, 2011 at 1:00 pm -

Hotmail Shows Message Counts When Pinned In IE9

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If you use Hotmail (and it does stack up a lot better than it used to and are running IE9, here’s a handy feature: pin Hotmail to the Windows 7 taskbar and you’ll get an automatically updated message count. [via IEBlog]

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Angus has been writing professionally about technology since 1994 and breaking it for even longer. He is based in Sydney but spends a frankly unhealthy portion of his life on the road, tracking down the latest stories. In 2011, he won the IT Journo Award For Best Consumer Technology Journalist and Consensus IT Writers Award for Best Technical Writer for his work on Lifehacker; about time too.

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Angus Thompson says:

April 8, 2011 at 2:04 pm

If I used IE9 this would be a lovely feature… my question is, what is the red dog (thingy) in the task bar?

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- Lachlan Deakin says:
  
  April 8, 2011 at 4:23 pm
  
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Rose says:

August 23, 2011 at 9:41 pm

What about with firefox?

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