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.

Comments

• Anonymous
  August 18, 2007
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• Anonymous
  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?