• eknirb

  and when will we see this? So they’ll give you a..(name)@newmail.com address?

  • Jeff

    You will never see this. Hotmail is NOT being rebranded as “Newmail”. This is a placeholder name. The screenshots above are not a final released product. Newmail is likely a development codename used to refer to the new interface.

    • johnshue

      It’ll be something lame like MSAccountMail

• http://twitter.com/Georgesab George Sabourin

  Newmail? I prefer Hotmail.

  • Jeff

    Newmail is a placeholder. It is not the new name for Hotmail.

  • Adenilson

    Its a new design….

  • http://www.amitavroy.com Amitav Roy

    Yes, I guess hotmail was better :)
    They should focus more on adding features like gmail rather than changing names.

    • Imrakeshchandra

      why u people are so dumb ?? newmail is not a rename. it’s the new interface it is referring to(codename for dev). grow up.

      • http://www.amitavroy.com Amitav Roy

        My friend I think you should read up more before making any such dumb comments… here is another source to confirm that its not just a project name, but actually renaming the service:�
        http://crave.cnet.co.uk/software/hotmail-becomes-newmail-leaked-screens-show-metro-refresh-50008203/ 

        • http://doctorwhofan98.wordpress.com/ doctorwhofan98

          But they haven’t even bought http://newmail.com/…

        • Jason

          I don’t see anything in that article you linked that “confirms” a name change. All I can see is restating what’s in this article.

• http://twitter.com/efjay01 Ef Jay

  What’s the purpose of getting a new Newmail email address when you already have a hotmail one? Seems confusing.

  • Imrakeshchandra

    why u people are so dumb ?? newmail is not a rename. it’s the new interface it is referring to. grow up.

• Josh602

  Interesting. So it’s basically like the Windows 8 Mail app? Also, is Newmail just a name they use internally for new releases, or are they actually going to call it that? I thought Hotmail had a strong brand.

  • http://www.facebook.com/Luffy07 Sergio Gonzalez

    agree with you, changing the name of a well known product may be a bad idea

    • cmwind

      people associate Hotmail with pedophiles and grandmas

      • http://twitter.com/dustbeta Dustin Schultz

        And it hasn’t been Hotmail for years anyways. Windows Live Mail. So I assume that with this you can keep your old domain, whatever it might be.

        • Jeff

          Actually the official name today is back to Hotmail, but for a while it was Windows Live Hotmail. They never officially dropped Hotmail from the name, but they tried to hide it by simply referring to it as “mail” on Windows Live sites.

        • johnshue

          Actually you had the option of having a hotmail or a windows live mail account

      • Ghw3294

        Who care what you think about HOTMAIL.. it works.. I have a gmail account.. it’s the pits trying to get off a message.. along with all the crap you have to go through.. to get it open… the interface is too full of junk one never uses.
        I like a clean inerface for my mail.. Hotmail fits my need.. I plan on keeping it. !!!!! Grandmaw or teenager.. or just a snoty nose,  know it all.
        Hotmail works.. that’s what  it’s for, any mail has those who abuse any and everything cmwind !!!!
        Enough said .

• http://doctorwhofan98.wordpress.com/ doctorwhofan98

  This will be great to use when I’m stuck on a Windows 7 PC (I use the Win 8 mail app). Any idea of when this will be available?

  • Damaster – LiveSide.net

    Our speculation is late July to August, if Microsoft sticks to their quarterly update schedule.

• http://www.flavors.me/fludlyt Fludlyt

  The design it’s significantly better, not too sure about the header navigation bar in the last picture though.

  For clarification in regards to the new email address, does this mean users can change their primary Microsoft account (Live ID) email to this new @newmail.com address? Essentially “upgrading” to a new address without any effect to subscriptions/billing etc? If so, that’s a pretty nice feature in itself.

  • cmwind

    yeah… If this rebranding is true I hope the domain can be swapped

    I also kind of wish they went with Skype as the encompassing brand for communication so Skype IM, Skype Call, Skype Mail

    Skype – Communication
    Office – Productivity
    Bing – Search
    Xbox – Media
    Windows – Platforms

    • Jeff

      Personally I would like email to be part of Skype. I would like to have an email address that is [myname]@skype.com.

    • http://twitter.com/leet_gamer iGamer

      well Microsoft doesn’t own the newmail.com domain according to the WHOIS records, so its definitely just a codename… I’m pretty sure it will stay as Hotmail.

• cmwind

  when can I get it!?!

• narmez

  with the English version it look way better than the old Hotmail going to upgrade once its available :)
  Question: are they also going to change the name to Newmail or its just a temporarily name

• http://twitter.com/hurrdedurp123 s

  But why would you want to change your email? If you’ve signed up to a lot of stuff then you need the email to be the same.

  • Jeff

    The name is not changing. “Newmail” is a placeholder. The development team likely uses “newmail” as a code name to describe the Metro interface. The screenshots above are not a final, released product.

• http://twitter.com/dustbeta Dustin Schultz

  Looks nice! Only thing I am sad about is it doesn’t look like they added RSS into the cloud yet.

  • theNewDanger

    It’d be nice to have that.  I only having Google Reader as an option.  I don’t want Google anything.

• Martin

  Open newmail . com in your browser: I don’t think the domain would be for sale if they wanted to re-brand Hotmail …

• Nobody

  NewMail what a rubbish name and will people be able to keep their hotmail address instead?

  Anyway Unlucky Microsoft lol The whois record for newmail.com says it was created in 1996 and its not like the name is/was directly related to them.

  http://whois.domaintools.com/newmail.com

  • Jeff

    Hotmail is not being renamed “Newmail”. This is a placeholder, likely used as a development codename.

  • Ghw3294

    Nobody hi…  I just used your posted link above..  to check out the website..http://whois.domaintools.com/n…   it says the website is up for Sale.
    So I suppose it is possible that’s where it could be if they buy it for the Newmail.

• chinch987

  awesome!

  need it ASAP for win8 release preview users running tablets :)

• http://tvtechgirl.blogspot.com/ Sharon Seymour

  Do people really still use Hotmail.

  ROFL

  • Sharon Seymuor

    Do people that dislike Hotmail still read articles about Hotmail.

    • http://tvtechgirl.blogspot.com/ Sharon Seymour

      Yes

      • http://www.facebook.com/j.spanberg Johan Spånberg Svelander

        It’s the biggest (by active user count) free webmail in the world… So yeah…

        • Jeff

          I believe Yahoo Mail is still the largest free webmail in the world by active user count, but Hotmail is a very close second.

        • http://tvtechgirl.blogspot.com/ Sharon Seymour

          What has Quantity got to do over Quality?

          Jersey Shore has more viewers than Mad Men but I know what is the better show.

          Oh well, if you are happy using a sub-standard and insecure email system by all means continue.

        • JeremyS

          Which one is sub-standard and insecure? D.) None of the above.

        • nasal

          If you are happy using an email provider that reads your email so it can display ads, by all means continue.

        • http://tvtechgirl.blogspot.com/ Sharon Seymour

          LOL. So so uninformed.

        • http://twitter.com/Henryed07 Henry Edwards

          Hotmail is not sub-standard. It’s the best with outlook, best office web apps. Better way to clean and flag your inbox. seamless integration with Office 2010. Whats sub-standard about that? Nothing.

        • http://tvtechgirl.blogspot.com/ Sharon Seymour

          rofl. silly.

        • peterpulmonary

          sharon since you seem to be lacking some relevant facts, see this url.
          http://www.geekwire.com/2011/stats-hotmail-top-worldwide-gmail-posts-big-gains/

          this year gmail overtook hotmail in us, but is still well behind (hotmail about 50% bigger marketshare) worldwide.
          hotmail has largest marketshare of free email client on planet.
          for email overall, outlook is by far largest market share.

        • peterpulmonary

          and more recent data
          http://www.campaignmonitor.com/stats/email-clients/

        • http://tvtechgirl.blogspot.com/ Sharon Seymour

          lol who cares about market share . If that is what you base quality on then I pity you.

          Go watch The Kardashians. I hear that is quite popular.

        • Matt

           Are all of your opinions based on television?

        • http://tvtechgirl.blogspot.com/ Sharon Seymour

          No, why?

        • Naved Ahmed

           what why ?

        • theNewDanger

          Why are you even here?  Stankin a$$ troll

        • http://tvtechgirl.blogspot.com/ Sharon Seymour

          where is here? I’m in my nice gmail inbox replying to you.

          Where are you then?

        • theNewDanger

          Replying about an article for Hotmail … yes once again … why bother?  You bring nothing to the table.  Go get your inbox raped by Google.

        • http://tvtechgirl.blogspot.com/ Sharon Seymour

          Why do you care so much about my opinion that you have to keep replying to me.

          You sound a little disturbed.

          I tend to ignore people if I don’t agree with them.

          Sounds like you should learn to do that and that it would help you be more tolerable to other people who have different opinions to yourself.

      • sa@sa.com

        Do people really use google mail?

    • johnshue

      You did obviously

  • Jeff

    Yes. Hotmail has more than double the number of active users as Gmail.

    • johnshue

      Yeah all porn spammers and people locked out of their accounts

  • Sugadevan

    haha You, one of the ignorants who are using gmail, never used hotmail, but u always think tht gmail is great. the hotmail is improved much in recent years. with skydrive,web apps,facebook, quick clean, neat UI, its better than gmail. dont troll without knowing anything and stop using “LOL”, “ROFL”

• http://twitter.com/Georgesab George Sabourin

  Question I have, with this Metro revamp for the former-live services, what will it be called in terms of Waves. Is it Wave 5? And we’re now on Wave 4?

• http://www.about.me/AngeloGopaul Eingoluq

  I do not like the name…. I mean after 3 years, it wont be new anymore.

  • Jeff

    They are not changing the name to Newmail. This is a placeholder. It is probably the code name for the redesign.

    • http://www.about.me/AngeloGopaul Eingoluq

      I hope so, but I also hope they change the name. just not to that.

• erichon99

  Newmail??? needs a better name if they are not sticking with Hotmail. Winmail would even sound better.

  • sab0tage

    How about “Livemail”?

    • Jeff

      Honestly I’m surprised Microsoft never secured livemail.com as a domain.

• http://www.LiveSide.net Kip Kniskern – LiveSide.net

  Thanks to Sarah Perez at TechCrunch, who just posted on our coverage of “Newmail” http://techcrunch.com/2012/06/08/microsoft-hotmail-is-going-metro-but-wont-be-called-newmail/ – she’s hearing that Newmail is simply a placeholder, and not an attempt to rebrand Hotmail, fwiw. As she points out, Microsoft tried to rebrand Hotmail once before (to Windows Live Mail), with somewhat disastrous results. The important thing is the new interface, don’t get too worked up over what looks like, but probably isn’t, a name change.

• jnt

  according to Tech Crunch, “Newmail” is just a placeholder… FWIW:
  http://techcrunch.com/2012/06/08/microsoft-hotmail-is-going-metro-but-wont-be-called-newmail/

  • jnt

    oops, “ninja’d” by kip!

• Jeff

  NEWMAIL is a placeholder. It is NOT the new name for Hotmail. Microsoft may try to rebrand Hotmail, but “Newmail” would not be the name.

  • Patricklotte

    I know it not the new name. But i would not be suprised if the add it. I mean the only hotmail. Adres you can register nowadays is jeff124@hotmail.com….. Not a real nice emailaddress lets wait an see

• Jeff

  We know Newmail is not a new name for Hotmail. And it’s unlikely Microsoft is going to try and rebrand it again. But I would like MS to add @xbox.com and @skype.com as available domains…

• Robert

  Since my domain’s email is managed by Hotmail, I’m guessing it will get the new interface as well? (All three email addresses. lol)

• http://www.about.me/AngeloGopaul Eingoluq

  Skype (Sky people??)
  SkyDrive
  SkyMail…. if only it wasn’t already taken

• BoInTheMix

  newmail.live.com works for me, redirect me to hotmail, they use the name only for the test, and i don’t like the new UI. Yaks!

• http://www.facebook.com/iain.simpson1 Iain Simpson

  very nice and clean design to fit nicely beside windows 8 final design(which is not on the release candidate).

• Robert

  Finally. Credit to Microsoft. This new interface looks fantastic.

  The existing Hotmail / Live design is a disgraceful effort for the biggest software company in the world.

• Seth_p

  Newmail doesn’t sound right, but the design is pretty sexy. I’d say it looks fluid, but then I’ll probably be told I’m brainwashed by the Microsoft marketers

• JSYOUNG571

  QUESTION..Where is web messenger in this new ui?

  • Damaster – LiveSide.net

    Still under construction we think. Expect a Web Messenger icon next to the Settings icon, like the one we’ve shown before: http://www.liveside.net/2012/05/27/exclusive-metro-styled-windows-live-profile-website-screenshots-leaked-twitter-sina-weibo-connections-coming-soon/

• cuz84d

  be nice if that was the new mail app in windows 8

• Gtr

  Love the look, hate the name.

• http://macrosofter.wordpress.com/ quikboy

  Are there really going to be new ads? Or is this wishful thinking considering it’s not official? :P

• Peter Henkel

  *_*
  Now let’s see if it will finally learn autogrouping mails the same way as Gmail does. Only after that I can say bye-bye to Google and I’ll completely switch to Microsoft services.

• TonyFinlay

  We need tabs!

• Guest

  It’s not good enough until I can add more than 1 mobile number to one contact without defining the second number as a “home number” and add a picture to the contact. Both are available on Gmail.

• http://doctorwhofan98.wordpress.com/ doctorwhofan98

  I really hope getting a new email address for this is optional (it says about getting a new email in the email in the article), because I’ve just changed my email and I don’t want to change it again!

• Nitin Singhal

  The design seems to awesome. Cant wait for the upgrade. Has the upgrading process already begun?

• http://www.facebook.com/fsolda Fábio Soldá

  The new interface is good. Clean and practical. However, the coloured squares with simple icons and text inside – which will be the new default Metro interface of Windows 8 – are too ugly. The old default, still used in Mac and the Linux-based systems, with not-so-huge icons and text in the bottom, is better than Metro.

• http://www.facebook.com/brijsmith Brian Smith

  “Newmail” name = lame. Trying too hard. Like Steve Ballmer trying to be cool.

  • ralphie02

    “newmail” is the placeholder……

• http://www.topfiveawards.com/ Top Five Awards

  It won’t be newmail, that .com isn’t owned by Microsoft.

• maksibg

  Windows 8 -  ugly edition

• Super2online

  Slick, love “Newmail” and love the changes! Out with the old and bring on Metro!

• http://www.7ooof.net/ BoMazeN

  Looks nice! 

• GeneK

  Please tell me that hotmail is finally releasing the true native Exchange protocol so that I can use hotmail with Office for Mac to sync contacts, calendar, notes and email. It s unbelievable that hotmail still only supports POP for Mac, not even IMAP

• http://www.mainstreetchatham.com/ JimmyFal

  This looks STUNNING. I had been initially frustrated with the overly simplistic apps in Metro Style, but this brings forward stunning simplicity, married with near full functionality. I am really looking forward to this, and I hope I can play with it all summer long. This will sell Windows 8, when people realize that this is what Windows 8 is all about. I want to play with it before rendering final judgement, but I really like what I see here. And can you PLEASE bump up the contact limit from 1500 PLEAAAASSSEEEE?!

• eknirb

  How about calling it ‘Windows Mail?’

• http://sarugu.com/ Albert

  If Hotmail has less popularity with the name name, better they can re-brand it to the new name. Like this placeholder of those screenshots. I like this new mail concept and UI design. Hope it will come soon to the market. 

• Nimish Mehta

  Will it have chat, office docs integration, facebook, skype video calling and other services……… I doubt. If they are not gonna include all then newmail won’t work………….

  • Damaster – LiveSide.net

    Why do you doubt? Many features you mentioned are already there in Hotmail.

    Chat = Yes. Web IM is already currently supported, and continue to be integrated across Hotmail (Newmail), SkyDrive …etc.
    Office docs = Yes. Hotmail already offers that, and will continue in the updated version.
    Facebook = Yes. Read the third bullet point in above. We believe that right-hand side bar will be utilized for this to some degree.
    Skype = Not sure yet. But we have previously mentioned that voice/video calling might be coming: http://www.liveside.net/2012/02/21/official-screenshot-confirms-that-web-based-video-chat-is-coming-to-windows-live-wave-5/  And stay tuned for more.

• williehutch03

  Livemail is a example name… Geez folks

• Guest20

  Hi everyone :)
  Did you know can or will be available some new domains such as @live.com or something else? So what is the certainty of this news?

• Naved Ahmed

  waiting for this new look … :)

• http://twitter.com/imnaved Naved

  im dying to see this new look.

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