The new Hotmail was introduced to the public a couple of weeks ago. It was initially started with one single server cluster. Thus there are only a few million people using this updated service which is less than 1% of the total hotmail users.
The company’s spokesperson says that it will be introduced to a few more server clusters. This is because the company has to do some minor changes in the update following its introduction to a single server cluster.
Features of the new Hotmail update:
• Full control of your inbox.
• Sharing becomes easier.
• Better connection from smart phone.
• access to your inbox.
Full control of your inbox:
You can full control of your inbox with the new Hotmail. The main thing in this is that your inbox need not messed up with all the mails from your contacts, your social networks and business letters. Here the homepage of hotmail itself slots up all the mails from contacts, social networks and business networks each separately and allows you better options. The other important feature is that not only your hotmail emails but also mails in all the inboxes like Gmail, Yahoo! Mail Plus and AOL are also slotted out in your hotmail homepage.
Easy sharing:
Now you can share your photos with your contacts easily. In the new Hotmail the photo attachments you receive can be viewed as a slideshow without even leaving your inbox and downloading just by a couple of clicks. You can also send large files of photos to your contacts. With the help of Windows Live Sky Drive you can send as many as 200 photos in a single mail with the maximum size of each photo being 50 MB. You can preview photos from your social networking sites like Facebook and Flickr.
Similarly you can send and receive 200 documents with the size of each document around 50MB in a single mail. You can also send Power point presentations through Hotmail.
Easy connection from Smart phones:
Now that we are in an era of smart phones, web access via phones have become easy. Hotmail has the feature to support push email on the web, PC and mobile phones using the Exchange Active Sync. With this feature now you can effortlessly synchronize your hotmail to your phone and web and also your calendar, tasks and contacts. You can also set remainders and filter and flag your emails in your phones using Hotmail. Here the homepage of hotmail itself slots up all the mails from contacts, social networks and business networks each separately and allows you better options. The other important feature is that not only your hotmail emails but also mails in all the inboxes like Gmail, Yahoo! Mail Plus and AOL are also slotted out in your hotmail homepage
With the all new features, Hotmail is yet to be available to all the users of Hotmail. It is said that it will be available to all the users within a few weeks time.
