webdotwiz Online column Thu, 5 August 2011–Get the most from the new Hotmail (Updated with screenshots)

Hotmail rollout By the time you read this week’s webDotWiz column, everybody (in Australia, at least) should have the new Hotmail. You’ll immediately know by the large orange icon towards the top of the Hotmail window that urges you to learn more about how you can organise your inbox. As well, the header at the [...]

Windows Live Hotmail update (Feb 2009) – how you’ll know you’ve got it

Here are a couple of screenshots of what you’ll see when you sign in to your Live Hotmail account – then you’ll know you’ve got the February update. Here’s the opening page you’ll see if you’ve received the update: As you (just) read from the above screenshot, the ad banner has been moved to the [...]

Live.com.au addresses now available for your Windows Live ID

Go to mail.live.com and sign up for a new account. You’ll see that the first option for a new Live ID is your-username@live.com.au.

Outlook users – get access to your Live Hotmail using Outlook Connector

Outlook users (both 2003 and 2007 versions) can now access their Windows Live Hotmail account(s), whether free or paid, from within Outlook using the Outlook Connector. Outlook Connector (currently in trial form) can be downloaded from here. Windows Live Hotmail free users get access to email, folders and contacts from within Outlook. Premium Hotmail users [...]

Windows Live Hotmail offical release this week?

Liveside are surmising that Windows Live Hotmail will be released in its final version later this week, i.e., no more Windows Live Hotmail Beta, just plain ol’ Windows Live Hotmail and everybody will have the latest.   It’s important to note how Windows Live Mail has come about in this age of blogs and users [...]

Official name is Windows Live Hotmail

Those of us trying out the new generation version of Hotmail have been calling it Windows Live Mail. However the tens of millions who haven’t been part of the testing cycle have preferred that the veteran Hotmail title stay around for more years – and that’s good. So the next generation of Hotmail is now [...]