I noticed the new Hotmail came first on my most recently opened account. This would suggest to me that newer accounts are set up to have the new look quicker and perhaps the problems are going to occur with older accounts as they are transferred. My new account works great, is indeed quicker as promised but does not look as nice as the old Hotmail. It reminds me of one of the early Windows Live (Hot)mail betas.

they definately  took the screenshots of the ugly themes :)  the default them looks much nicer (imo)

@Attack Blogger - If you remember, when was this account opened?

I just made an account, so now I have 3... each about a year apart, if I remember correctly.  I tried making a UK account, but it wouldn't let me.

if you go to account.live.com it tells you when the account was created

"Overall, we really liked this new version of Hotmail. It does not (yet?) include a lot of new functionality, but it does give Microsoft a very well designed scaffold to use once it decides to add more functions in the future."

What's wrong with the existing scaffold? :-\

OWA anyone?

srlsy.. outlook web access looks like this for years now...

It's got to be a mix of accounts that are getting the limited update.  I've had my hotmail since at least 2000 I'm sure, if not a bit before.  

@natenovs  agreed about the "themes", they're really not all that attractive.  If a bit girly. (nothing against the feminine of our species).  Wonder if this will lead into us being able to upload our own graphics for backgrounds/themes? Hmmmm....

I'm happy that Wave3 works on Safari for the most part, since I use both OSX and Windows all the time these days.  At least now I can get to my Mail and Calendar using the campus computers.  

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I have about 13 Windows Live Hotmail screenshots:

www.geeksmack.net

A review is coming soon. Please link back if there will be an article on it.

I have a speculation - I think there are people that haven't logged into Hotmail for a few years, and they're logging into the current wave, not the wave 3 version, and making analysis based on that.  I've seen a couple of reviews that seem to be doing that... just think it's funny.

A friend of mine actually has this. I saw it on her Hotmail.

It was on co102 i think. The same as the brazilian guy, but then in Dutch.

Her account is probably pretty old, at least 3 years.

My account is from 1998 and I STILL haven't gotten the "new" Wave 3 Hotmail.  My account is on bay 117.

Check: by107df-w.bay107.mail.live.com/.../WhatsNew.aspx

@Pytt Thanks Pal!!

@Pytt - That link doesn't work for me.  It keeps bringing me back to Bay 117, which still doesn't have Wave 3.... :(

link works fien for me cool!

Pytt's link should work fine if you sign out of live id as the page is not sign in protected.

i noticed that it will redirect to my (current) hotmail bay if sign in (which is a 107 but maybe a different datacenter)

bl107w.blu107.mail.live.com - not converted at 14:57 BST (30/9) Locale= GB

get.live.com/.../features ?

nice find ssp I dont see any differences, I am already a plus user

It's really odd that the staff at Hotmail are really quiet especially with people complaining about the new wave.  

Plus it's interesting that not many people have been updated even though we are on the 3rd day (Fri/Mon and tues).....

i think we all have to be patient and be happy that microsoft didn't update all accounts at once. it seems there are problems with some accounts. what would have happened if they where all updated simultaniously... remember the start/update of mobile me... ;-)

Thought i would let some people know the Hotmail Technical Support just blogged about the issues but they have taken it down for some reason but have a look at:

www.google.com/search

and

www.google.com/search

@ BV2312

Even when looking at the cached pages, those posts weren't there.

@Jeremy

yeah i know but it gives the header and a sentance ;).... cached pages are not up yet i guess

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This morning the Windows Live Hotmail Technical Support blog posted the following message, only to take

Interesting thing I've noticed on most of the screenshots posted thus far.  They're still retaining the text-link header in the old Wave 2 fashion.   I've not seen any with the full Wave 3 changes yet.  

As I’ve always had My.Live.com set as my homepage, this (minor) update to Live Search homepage over at

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