Windows Live Hotmail

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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 in January! 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).
  • New! IM from your inbox: Coming in February! See if your Messenger contacts are online and say “hi.”

* 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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