This week, Microsoft announced changes to their Hotmail email system which has 360 million users. The beta version will be available to the general public in the coming weeks.
WHAT’S NEW
Home Page:
● Convenient and concise summary of the most important mail in your inbox. Conversation view similar to Google’s Gmail. “and .
● Integration with all the popular social media networks : Facebook, Myspace, Twitter and sites like Flickr and Photobucket, for photo sharing options, Youtube and Dailymotion for video sharing
● Post comments directly to some of these sites and update your Facebook status.
Inbox:
● Cut through the clutter by clicking just once to see all the mail from your contacts, or all of your social network updates (Facebook, Twitter, MySpace, etc.), or mail from the group mailing lists you belong to. Click once to see all messages that have links to photos or photos attached, or all messages that have Office documents attached, or shipping updates, or messages you’ve flagged.
Sweep Away Clutter:
A tool that makes it easy to get rid of the junk mail cluttering up your inbox. Sweep is a virtual broom that lets you super easily “sweep” the mail you don’t want out of your inbox into either folders or oblivion, leaving your inbox clean.
Hotmail Active View:
● Hotmail automatically shows you a preview of your photo attachments and lets you view them as a slide show in a single click.
● Using Windows Live SkyDrive you can send up to 200 photos, each up to 50 MB in size, all in a single email.
● If you receive a document, you can now open it with the full power of the new Office Web Apps, right in Hotmail.
Mobile:
● Hotmail supports push email on the web, PC, and now also on the mobile phone. Using Exchange ActiveSync you can seamlessly synchronize Hotmail between your phone and the web, and also synchronize your calendar, contacts, and tasks.
More:
● Enhanced account protection, full-session SSL, multiple email accounts, subfolders, contact management, and ever-growing storage. Attachment size limit increased to 10GB , each attachment allow up to increased up to 50MB and maximum 200 attachments
Links for more information :
http://windowslivepreview.com/hotmail/
http://microsoftfeed.com/2010/30-cool-features-of-new-windows-live-hotmail/
http://windowsteamblog.com/windows_live/b/windowslive/archive/2010/05/18/re-inventing-windows-live-hotmail-the-next-generation-of-personal-email.aspx
Benny Lee MN's RANTS 
Posted on May 19, 2010
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