Windows Live Hotmail Wave 3 will be launched shortly. Whats new !?Faster than ever. It'll be up to 70 percent faster to sign in and see your e-mail. Of course, along with more speed, you'll get powerful technology that deflects spam and helps protect you against viruses and scams.
Simpler, cleaner design. We're combining the classic and full versions of Hotmail, so you get access to everything Hotmail has to offer. The reading pane will let you check out your e-mail without having to open it up.
Put more you in your e-mail. New themes and colors will let you design the look of your inbox, so your personality can really shine through.
Closer to your contacts. Just start typing in the "To" line and you'll get a choice of e-mail contacts that most closely match what you've typed. Plus, it'll be even easier to e-mail groups of people.
Apprently over 260 million users worldwide...
Yes, but I'd rather use my own client that I've already configured for everything else.
Me. Since about 1997.
It wasn't working properly in Firefox 2 for a while there if I remember correctly.
No it is not fully compatible. The Windows Live Messenger presence is not in WLHotmail in Firefox & you cannot resize the 'folders' column. You also cannot use the drop-down to move emails to other filders by just using the mouse on the scrollbar.
There are many issues with Windows Live Hotmail currently in both Firefox 2 & Firefox 3.
When Firefox 3.0 was released, the newer flashy version of Windows Live Hotmail where you can drag and drop messages around didnt work, and users of that browser were forced to use "Classic" mode... That issue is now fixed though.
As for Firefox, MS has been pretty good about making Hotmail work properly in there now. I use Hotmail all day long at work in Firefox, I would expect this new version to work right away or within a few days.
http://groups.google.com/group/mozilla.fee...56b78b2a202ba8e
http://groups.google.com/group/mozilla.fee...f59d69deb53fd86
"New themes and colors will let you design the look of your inbox, so your personality can really shine through."
What age group are they attempting to appeal to, I wonder?
Seriously, why don't they just call it Hotmail? Everybody else does.
Agreed. This and imap support are the major things needed
if its good with ie, i dont care about others
on top of that, hotmail has because very slow on my outlook (both 2003 & 2007) at such a point where it hangs there 3-6secs each time I want to check my new mails.
I'm thinking about swiching to Gmail, and that's bad for microsoft.
Why did I say all this? Because microsoft is once again focusing on unimportant details instead of the core, main, problem of its solution. On our email, spams and proper rules are the priority and microsoft limits both at such a point it quickly becomes unusable for any advanced user.
on top of that, hotmail has because very slow on my outlook (both 2003 & 2007) at such a point where it hangs there 3-6secs each time I want to check my new mails.
I'm thinking about swiching to Gmail, and that's bad for microsoft.
Why did I say all this? Because microsoft is once again focusing on unimportant details instead of the core, main, problem of its solution. On our email, spams and proper rules are the priority and microsoft limits both at such a point it quickly becomes unusable for any advanced user.
This was crux of the biscuit when I stopped using hotmail and switched to Gmail (keeping a resident email client handy). Now I only use Gmail for commercial email which is then routed to the resident client, and the resident client for personal mail. To make the package complete I use Mailwasher to cleanse both before downloading anything. Works for me.
Gmail gets tons of spam, but at least they have a filter which works fairly well. Hotmail on the other hand seems to have none.
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