Microsoft Pushes Windows Live Hotmail For Public
After Google, its Microsoft’s chance to provide more space to its e-mail customers. Microsoft Pushes Windows Live Hotmail from its Beta status for public use. Though it was in news since the ending of year 2005 with the name “Windows Live mail”, but after going through its beta status, Microsoft has changed the name to “Windows Live Hotmail”. According to Microsoft, this product is a significant upgrade to MSN hotmail. It gives flexible access via the web on a mobile phone or with an e-mail client. Microsoft’s main aim was to bring all its services like Live.com, Live Search, Windows Live messenger, Windows Live space and Windows Live hotmail to a single mega service.
Presently Windows Live Hotmail is in two versions, the classical version to run smoothly on a slow speed internet pc and the Full version for high speed internet users. Full version offers the feature of viewing messages in the preview pan like we do in Outlook 2003 & 2007.
Features
A fresh new look, more space (2GB), some added features and accessing all the microsoft services in a single click. You can search the web as well as your mail from your hotmail account. Using Contact Importer you can directly import your contacts from outlook mail client to your hotmail client. This tool is a free download from the hotmail web site. You don’t need to add all the contacts manually. Simply run this exe to upload all your contacts from outlook to your hotmail account.
Security
Microsoft does the home work to finding out whether the mail in your mailbox is from a secure source or is a phishing attempt by some bad guy. You can mark your mail safe if it is form a known sender. The red and yahoo bar present at the top of your mail warns you about these attempts by making the un-secured mail to appear in red color and the safe one in yellow. Microsoft in collaboration with Micro Trends, makes your mails virus free.
But still it lags with Google in terms of the space availability. Windows Live Hotmail offers 2 GB of space when compared to Gmail at 2.8 GB. Yahoo is a way long way back with 1GB of space. If you need more space in your Hotmail account, you can pay extra 20 bucks to get it. Yes, you can get extra 2GB of storage by paying $20 per year. Microsoft also announced its new product, “Microsoft Office Outlook Connector Beta” using which, all its live hotmail customers over the web can access their mails free using Outlook 2003 or Outlook 2007. In future, Microsoft is also looking forward to introduce its Windows Live Mobile mail product.
So, What are you waiting for? Get your Windows Live hotmail Now .
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