Using Windows Live Mail

Windows Live Mail is one of the free programs in the Windows Live Suite and you can download it from www.windowslive.com. Live Mail is the new email client for Windows XP, replacing the old out-moded Outlook Express. With Live Mail you can manage as many email addresses as you like and take advantage of improved [...]

Windows Live Mail now available

Windows Live Mail is the replacement email client for Outlook Express on Windows XP and the Windows Mail on Vista. WLM also replaces Windows Live Mail desktop which some of us have been using for some months but WLM in the main keeps all the features we WLMd users have become accustomed to (except, of [...]

Windows Live Hotmail and Windows Live Mail are the official names

We already know that Windows Live Hotmail is the name that’s been decided on for the newly-released web-based email service that we used to know as MSN Hotmail (since 1996 or so). There were a couple of other name changes tried during the testing period but they’re behind us now and we can get back [...]

Windows Live Hotmail officially launched

Via Liveside. In a press release (May 6, U.S. time), Microsoft announced that Windows Live™ Hotmail®, the successor to MSN® Hotmail, is launching globally in 36 languages. The most significant upgrade for Hotmail since it pioneered the webmail industry in 1996, the new service has been built to be a vast improvement over the previous [...]

Your contacts in Live Hotmail

Whether you’re using Hotmail in the classic view (because of a slow Internet connection) or the full version, you’re able to do a lot with your contacts. You might want to have your contacts on one of your Hotmail accounts in your Outlook or Outlook Express contacts list so there’s the option in Hotmail to import and export your contact [...]

Let Live Hotmail sort your mail

For yonks Hotmail has been able to organise your mail into folders for you. This feature is particularly handy if you receive newsletter-type mail, e.g., latest prices for plane tickets, and don’t want it cluttering up your inbox. In classic view go to Options and in full Hotmail go to Options/More options to get to [...]

Windows Live Hotmail latest updates

By now everybody should have, or it isn’t be far away, the latest update (milestone 10 or M10) to Live Hotmail – you’ll know when you see the name change to Windows Live Hotmail above the Hotmail toolbar on the left of the page. It’s now easier to choose which view you want to use, either [...]

Windows Live Mail desktop update

There’s a new build of Windows Live Mail desktop available which improves some of its internal workings so you won’t see much difference from the earlier version (perhaps the icons across the top toolbar have been updated ?). You get this latest update from the Microsoft Windows Update site (updates.microsoft.com). Click on Custom in the [...]

Windows Live Hotmail is the new name for Live Mail

While the million or so testers (that number includes the volunteers and webDotWizards at Rushworth Community House) have known the new Hotmail as Windows Live Mail for several months, there are all the other 239 million users who have always known Hotmail as… Hotmail. So it’s been decided that, when the final version of the new Hotmail rolls [...]

Latest update to Windows Live Mail

Another update is being put out for Live Mail – this one mainly deals with an increase in speed for those using the Live Mail in Classic view (formerly called Light view). To quote the team from their Space: …we’ve also been working hard on the next version of Windows Live Mail, called M9, which [...]