5GB for Hotmail, plus other enhancements
We have just released a further update to Windows Live Hotmail, and I'm definitely liking the new features:
- Firstly - more space. Lots more actually: You now have 5GB of space to store your emails and contacts etc
- "Out of office" feature that, just like Outlook, allows you to automatically respond to emails when you're on holiday for example.
- Ability to forward email to another email account. Your choice whether you leave a copy of the email in your Hotmail inbox or not.
- Skip the "today" screen and instead start up straight into your inbox.
- Automatically dedup your contacts, including intelligent merging of contacts.
There's more, but these are the features that really stand out for me as being of great interest right away.
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Anonymous
August 18, 2007
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August 18, 2007
My hotmail account still shows 2GB. How long will it take to transfer to 5GB?Anonymous
August 19, 2007
Fakhruddin - mine definitely shows 5GB so I imagine it's a gradual roll out given the hundreds of millions (literally) of active hotmail accounts. If I find out more I'll let you know.Anonymous
August 24, 2007
This is great but when will hotmail offer pop3 access for free?