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About Windows Live Hotmail

How do we build the best possible e-mail experience? It's got to have built in security based on powerful Microsoft technology that helps to fight spam and protect you from viruses and scams. It's also got to be fast, reliable, and easy-to-use, so we're constantly testing it and asking for feedback.
We're committed to getting the basics right, but we also want to make Hotmail reflect what you want it to be. People tell us that a good e-mail service helps them keep in touch and stay organized. So you can use Hotmail as more than just an e-mail account. It can be one convenient place for your multiple e-mail accounts, calendars, and contacts.
Here's some of the stuff we've been working on based on the feedback you've given us:1
  • Ever-growing storage. 5 GB of storage that automatically increases as you need it.2
  • IM through Hotmail. See if your Messenger contacts are online and say "Hi! :-)"
  • Sharing calendars. Make calendars everyone in your family, club, or study group can see. Subscribe to the event calendar of a local sports team. See calendars when you're offline with Outlook or the Windows Live Mail desktop client on your PC.
  • Cleaner design. We're working to keep the interface simple and easy-to-use.
  • Consolidated e-mail accounts. See your many e-mail accounts organized in one place, even if they're not Hotmail accounts—give them each a folder or put them all in your inbox.3
More of what's new.
Yours truly,
The Windows Live Hotmail Team
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1Some of these features are still making their way out. If you don't see one of these features yet inside your Hotmail account, you will over the coming weeks.
2This assumes a reasonable growth rate.
3We're rolling out a simple tool that will fetch your e-mail from many non-Hotmail services like AOL, Gmail, and Yahoo! Mail Plus. That way you can see e-mail from those accounts organized all in one place without having to log into each service separately. (For Techies: this fetching tool uses POP to import e-mail from other services into Hotmail). Depending on when you are reading this, you may already see this tool in the Options page of your Hotmail account under the section titled "Send and receive mail from other e-mail accounts." If you don't see it there yet, you will in the coming weeks.