My WL Hotmail account switch over to new version from last week. I have n’t find any kind of prob in my account. Everthng is goin f9 wth me.

I thnk their may sme kind of pepople hw createing neagtive image on new version ..

Maybe Microsoft is just getting better at getting better at showing people where to give feedback on their products.

Also, I love the new Hotmail version. I’ve had it for a few weeks now, and it’s great.
The only thing I don’t like is the numbered pages.

I thought the numbered pages had always been there in Hotmail? My Hotmail (Wave 2) has the numbered pages too – well not really “numbered” but it has the arrows to go to the next page.

It’s Windows Live Mail (the client) that doesn’t have the pages thing right?

This is weird, as soon as you announce some of your email accounts now have wave 3 i too get wave 3? well i guess its groups of servers being updated.

anyway. i cannot believe how blisteringly fast it was, there was no loading screen whatsoever like before, i typed in hotmail.com and it showed me my inbox faster than http://www.google.com can show up! amazing!

i think microsoft will be making some money out of people, and me, because i really want to get rid of those adverts at the top. how do you do it again? hotmail plus or something?…

One more thing I had noted was, for the first time when you click on ‘Calendar’ from the left pane , you will goto the Old ver of Calendar. While if you clcik ‘Calendar’ from the ‘More’ option at top header you will get the new wave3 beta calendar. ANd once you have clicked that, you will get the new ver from the Left pane calendar option also.
And from the Left ‘calendar’ option you will see a placeholder for ‘option’ on top right. This has to be corrected.

Is anybody else also observed?

@Vasudev : I jst observe that in both the case new version of Calendar is open up in my both the account..

Mannn… they’ve forgotten about me :P

I still don’t have it on any 3 of my accounts :(

So i posted i got wave 3 today….

2 minutes ago guess what happend? “hotmail has been updated, close or sign out and in again…”

i was thinking: “yay messenger ability is already being added wo hooo!”

so i closed my browser, opened it up again, went into hotmail….i saw a loading screen. Part of me felt that it was exected, the mesenger capability may require more loading perhaps. Another part of me was saying “it cant be going back to the old version surely, nah or course not dont be silly levi, they wouldnt go back”

loading completes…behold. what did i see.

STUPID OLD VERSION!

not happy right now. ive never hated something on my screen as much as i did three minutes ago. (ok well i hate the apple adds more but thats different)

I still hve n’t get char feature within m inbox..

So no one else has been forced back to the old version? Why me?

My….old account get updated…. Bay115 !

( Why i have change address??? ) XD

I also got the upgrade today…

I’m very pleased with the upgrade on IE or firefox on my personal Windows machine (although i still insist that the banner looks so ugly on top…)

However, I tried accessing my mail account on Firefox on Linux (which I have to use at work) and it completely locked up firefox. I then rebooted the machine, and then after endless waiting my inbox finally appeared (without the ad on top, just a blank space…) and then I am totally unable to write/reply to emails….. Not too happy :(

@Rieuwa

Works fine with me on
FF 3
Opera 9.52
and Safari 3.1.2 (Only used it here there as it’s 100%Acid 3)

Got mine this am on bay 117.

It’s slow as molasses right now. :-(

@zaf: I am able to select more than 1 message at a time. Try clearing your cache.

I have noticed one problem with it (as well as them stupidly not allowing us to select different colours for our layout – only silly ‘themes’ – I would like both colours & theme patterns), you cannot resize the column with folders in, only the column with the messages in.

This is bad because sometimes we have longer folder names.

Other than those two problems, I love the new Hotmail, much better,

My 3 free accounts have upgraded, but my 1 hotmail plus account has not – nor has my wife’s hotmail plus account… so it’s hard to test since those 3 accounts are used strictly for forwarding, but everything seems to be working smoothly with them.

I keep going back there and looking at all the comments. Some of them are really stupid. One in particular says that there have been no comments on that page between the post date and today. Must’ve been hitting the “First 20 Comments” button, huh?

I sometimes wonder if these are real customers or a bunch of Apple employees posting all day long. And Google. And Yahoo…

:O :O :O :O :O :O :O

They’ve taken the new Hotmail off me! :O

Whyyyy? :| As soon as I get it, it’s swiped away from me… TEASES! :P

(Obviously I know it’s probably due to some sort of bug or something, but it’s very annoying)

By the way, before they took it away from me, I noticed an inconsistency – instead of “People” they put “Contacts” down the left bottom, just above “Calendar”. It shoud say “People” as that is what it is called. Secondly in Hotmail it said “Contact list” there for me & “Contacts” on Calendar. So not only is it an inconsistency with the name of the actual service, they even have that wrong name different in Calendar & Hotmail.

Alright, let me say something here… I found that I didn’t actually get the new Hotmail on my main account. However, I got it on my second account (linked to my main account). If I login with the account that has Wave 3 Hotmail and switch to my main account… I get Wave 3 there as well.

Yeah, I have the new Hotmail again too now & also noticed something which hopefully points to a name change to “Windows Live Mail” which I have sent to the tips email address.

@tweeter:

What do you mean when you say “the fonts suck on Firefox & Chrome”?

The fonts look perfect to me :/

@cJr: Yup I understand what you mean – in places like editing your Signature or Automated Vacation Replies.

Talking about the “new” text editing bar, anyone noticed the new one actually allow you to have less colours that before? The original one allowed all colour ranges (any RGB/CMYK values), whereas the new one only allows the default “office 2007″ colour templates.

Also it’s weird that in Safari, the Signature and AutoVacation Replies text editing fields have no editing toolbar, but the Compose Email one does…

Yes damaster, that was the other example I was thinking of – the automated vacation replies :D

It’s ridiculous they can’t implement this new text editing bar into the whole of Hotmail – I don’t understand why they don’t :S

As for the issue in Safari, that must just be a bug, hopefully they know about it.

I’ve not noticed any lack of colours (but then I didn’t know you could have more than what is on the pallete anyway before). The amount of colours when composing a message is much more improved than the ‘old’ text edit bar currently in the Wave 3 hotmail (the bar on personal sugnature, for example)

with the wave 3 in place, Home link isn’t workig any more. Windows . loos like, we need to wait for the new windows live Home page.

@Whitetern yeah you don’t have an icon anymore to automatically delete without viewing the folder it self

is it only me but i don;t get why so many people are complaining about the new version? especially on WL Wire blog….

are they complaining about too much whiteness?
their screen resolution is different so everything is squashed (i use 1024 x 768)
they are using something that is blocking WL Hotmail to load fully?

I just do not get it….

@BV2312

I’ve wondered the same thing – yet so many people seemed to be having similar problems. I’d be willing to bet that half of the complaints on the WL Wire blog are from people still running win 95 or 98 or using IE5 or lower on a CRT that can’t handle more than 800×600.

I’ve had zero problems, and really like it, but obviously there’s always room for improvement (cJr had some good ones – plus, how about a “check mail” button??). My wife, who is one of those who hates change, especially in email, said the changes have had almost no affect on how she uses her email each day, so she’s been happy so far, too…

@kbhasi:

There is actually no way that would change your Hotmail interface from Wave 2 to Wave 3, sorry.

What must have happened is that you must have been upgraded to Wave 3 within the “few days” you waited.

The majority of users were upgraded to Wave 3 on 4th November, so you must have been one of them,