Microsoft has began launching Windows Live Hotmail worldwide
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Microsoft Wrote:REDMOND, Wash. — May 6, 2007 — Microsoft Corp. today announced that Windows Live™ Hotmail®, the successor to MSN® Hotmail, is launching globally in 36 languages. The most significant upgrade for Hotmail since it pioneered the webmail industry in 1996, the new service has been built to be a vast improvement over the previous Hotmail offering, having incorporated input from more than 20 million beta testers. Windows Live Hotmail will deliver a safer, more powerful and productive e-mail experience than previous versions with flexible access via the Web, on a mobile phone or with an e-mail client. Microsoft also announced that later this month Windows Live Hotmail customers will be able to access their Windows Live Hotmail e-mail and contacts for free* using Microsoft® Office Outlook® 2003 or Office Outlook 2007 via the new Microsoft Office Outlook Connector beta.
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Finally! They sure took their time
Yeah, finally. Maybe it will beat out GMail, who knows
Meh the word "beta" has gone and that is it
, I'm just waiting for @live addresses to be officially available so they release a tool that allows me to migrate smoothly and effortlessly from my old @hotmail account to one of my new @live.com accounts
ValSpy Wrote:Yeah, finally. Maybe it will beat out GMail, who knows
I honestly doubt it. Gmail's interface, imo, still outbeats the Hotmail one. The new hotmail is an improvement, but it's too "shiny". When you check your mail, you're there to see your mail, not loads of ads and shiny buttons. The Gmail interface, also, is by far more user friendly because everything is there, smooth, soft, simple. It has an effective layout, it has a pretty good spam filter, and it has filters
.Lou Wrote:It has an effective layout, it has a pretty good spam filter, and it has filters
So does WLHotmail in my experience, and overall it seems better than GMail, although Yahoo! Mail is still my favourite "web 2.0" webmail
the andyman Wrote:.Lou Wrote:It has an effective layout, it has a pretty good spam filter, and it has filters
So does WLHotmail in my experience, and overall it seems better than GMail, although Yahoo! Mail is still my favourite "web 2.0" webmail
The new hotmail is a definite improvement, and having not used anything yahoo in years, I've no idea how it looks. I believe that Web 2.0 stuff really doesn't belong in an webmail interface though. I sure am glad hotmail is allowing outlook usage for free now though. That was the main reason I switched at first (I don't use a program anymore though).
Overall, I do prefer Google Mail's interface over the other two, but I have never got round to switching.