Windows Live Hotmail to be launched this week
The “Windows Live Hotmail” known as “Windows Live Mail” has been tested for months and this week the service will get available. The first who will try are the Australians users going live on the 8th of May.
Windows Live Hotmail will be launched globally in 36 languages, with current customers able to “update their existing account to Windows Live Hotmail by logging into their account as normal and clicking on the green “Join Windows Live Hotmail” button.
According to MSN, new customers will be able to visit this site to sign up for a new Windows Live Hotmail account. Kate Beddoe, the head of services at the Australian version of MSN, known as ‘ninemsn’ due to a partnership with Australian free-to-air television company ‘Channel Nine’ said that customers have given positive feedback of the new Windows Live Hotmail over the beta-test period.
Microsoft is offering 2Gb of storage space to Hotmail users, which officially makes Hotmail the least generous of the three main web-mail services.
Microsoft says that they “will continue to grow storage to meet customer needs” although this seems obvious, especially if Yahoo’s ploy of ‘unlimited’ storage contributes to Yahoo Mail’s user base, which is currently the world’s largest, eclipsing that of Gmail and Windows Live Hotmail.
Microsoft promise to tout a ‘safety bar’ with a white bar for email from someone you know, a yellow bar for unknown senders and a red bar for potentially ‘fraudulent email’.
The spam protection are also an improvement that the company will resolve with a one click ‘mark as unsafe’ link, although recent online reports have indicated something seriously wrong with Hotmail’s junk mail protections, causing some people to be summarily blocked from sending email to Hotmail subscribers.
This comes after Microsoft's plan to by Yahoo, who knows maybe Bill Gate’s company are eliminating the competitors in conquering the internet world.
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