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Faster and more secure than ever, Hotmail is more than just another e-mail account. It’s all your online stuff together: E-mails, calendars, contacts, spam protection, and more.
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Top features
- New! More storage Windows Live Hotmail gives you 5GB of storage space—and soon, we’ll add more storage that will grow as you need it.
- New! See your many e-mail accounts in one place Coming Soon! Access and manage multiple e-mail accounts — including Gmail, AOL, and Yahoo! Plus Mail — all from your Hotmail inbox.
- New! Faster than ever Now it’s up to 70 percent faster to sign in and see your e-mail.*
- New! Simpler, cleaner design: Now the classic and full versions of Hotmail are combined, so you have access to all the Hotmail features. New themes and colors let you design the look of your inbox.
- New! New calendar: Create, share, and subscribe to calendars more easily than ever before. You can even access your calendar through the Mail desktop application or through Outlook with Outlook Connector.
- Spam protection: The latest spam protection technology helps block unwanted messages and viruses 24/7 and reduces spam by 80% (compared to spam in the inbox levels of August 2006).
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New! IM from your inbox:
Coming Soon! See if your Messenger contacts are online and say “
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* Based on Microsoft tests in July 2008, Hotmail showed up to 70% greater speed for the following over broadband connections: sign in, view e-mail, open e-mail. On narrowband connections, tests showed up to 56% greater speed for the same transactions.
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The benefits of two email addresses
1/30/2009 5:40:03 PM, Kumar
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Laundry list of wants for Windows Live wave 4
1/9/2009 11:13:49 PM, Jamie
A few days ago I published a blog entry What's next in Windows Live wave 4 where I threatened to publish a list of features I would like to see implemented in the next version of Windows Live; here is that list. I’m putting this up here mainly for my own ...
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Just noticing this cool Photo Effect on Windows Live Spaces
3/1/2009 6:32:02 PM, Andre
Was fiddling with my Windows Live Space when I discovered this new effect for viewing photos on your Windows Live Space. Any image clicked loads a photo viewer, this seems to be a feature applied through Windows Live Writer 2009 called ‘Enable Inline ...
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Birthdays in Windows Mobile
2/15/2009 8:43:11 PM, Jasper
If you synchronise your Windows Mobile device with Outlook. Then your birthdays will automatically be inserted, as an all day event on the date of the birthday. With the ever helpful age of the person on there birthday, displayed in brackets. All very ...
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Windows Live Spaces: Top 5 Wish List
2/24/2009 10:32:36 AM, lan
Windows Live wave 3 brought great improvements to live.com, and was part of my motivation for hosting this blog on Spaces (which has only been updated slightly). But I am starting to regret it. Here’s my top 5 reasons why: I set up a domain for the ...
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Another Secret RSS Feed from the Windows Community
2/19/2009 3:58:22 PM, Marcus at Microsoft
We’ve just added another way to get some of the best contributions from the Windows Community into your favorite RSS reader (like Windows Live Mail for instance) or into an RSS component on your favorite website. Now, you can get all the posts from a ...
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Magical Live Search – Look, No Computer and No Smart Phone!
2/16/2009 8:54:52 PM, Brien
You’re kidding me, right? You want to use Live Search but you don’t have a computer or smart phone? Okay, okay, you’re right. You can search with a simple mobile phone and you don’t need web service or SMS texting. Live Search 411 to the rescue! Sorry, ...
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Where’s “Update Feeds” in Windows Live Mail?
2/3/2009 2:47:14 AM, Michael
I use Windows Live Mail as my RSS feeder. An RSS feeder, if you don’t know, allows you to see new (or old) posts from your favorite blog or website that come updated every time you check. Windows Live Mail used to have this feature that allowed me to ...
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Windows Live, Windows Mobile & Windows Live Mobile!
2/14/2009 8:52:10 AM, Gumby
For those of us lucky enough to own a Windows Mobile powered device then you’ll be able to use the windows live applications already installed. It means you don’t have to navigate through the browser version which takes time but can do things a lot ...
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How to get more visitors to your Space: AlphaInventions.com
2/11/2009 6:04:00 PM, X-Evolutionist
There is a fairly new service called AlphaInventions.com. I found out how great it is several months ago when I had 500 visitors to my space in one day. No, this is not a Windows Live product, but as you will see, it is still good for Windows Live. It is ...
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Here, there, and everywhere
1/16/2009 9:25:13 PM, Greg
In my ongoing series of Clubhouse posts, I’ve decided to turn really good questions I’ve been asked into blog entries. Recently, a member of one of my Windows Live Groups asked the group’s experts to explain hyperlinks in a way that makes sense to ...
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Windows Live Essentials Released
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Summary: Windows Live Essentials programs Mail Messenger Photo Gallery Writer Movie Maker (only a beta version is available) Family Safety Toolbar Optional Programs Office Outlook Connector Office Live Add-in Microsoft Silverlight Links for ...
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Spam bothering you? it’s a bird, no it’s a plane, it’s….Hotmail to the rescue!
2/6/2009 9:03:37 PM, Kumar
Somebody asked me the other day: why do they get spam? Without diving into the philosophical aspects of spam (though, that is an excellent topic for a post for some other day), I figured, I’ll explore what features Hotmail offers to control spam. Here is ...
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i love love. the sea. hair calm. light music dimmed.
1/28/2009 5:23:09 AM, Jeffrey
Did that title make you look? This isn’t really about love. Well, unless you love the new Internet Explorer and the accelerators. Anyway, a comment was left explaining this technique, but somehow, I think my explanation of using an Internet Explorer ...
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Publishing Photos Received by E-mail
1/23/2009 6:58:35 PM, Braden
Looking for a better way to manage the photos that people e-mail you as attachments? Well I've got it! Just do the following: 1. Create a photo album in Windows Live Photos at http://photos.live.com/ (ideally with a short name) 2. Then, go to ...
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Windows Live’s Rosetta stone
1/27/2009 1:42:36 AM, Greg
We all (at least the English speakers among us) tend to assume the language of our most visited pages to be English. When we do occasionally run into a foreign-language page, it leaves us feeling totally flummoxed and suddenly quite aware of just how ...
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Windows Live Mail alerts to your Cell phone
2/23/2009 5:29:38 PM, Growthumbs
If your like me and work somewhere were you can't be near a PC for sometime throughout the day, but would like receive alerts sent to your cell when you receive a email. Windows Live Mail or as some still call it Hotmail will do this for you. Setting up ...
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