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Interesting thing I've noticed on most of the screenshots posted thus far. They're...
–Hb8
re: Hotmail spotted in the wild

@Jeremy yeah i know but it gives the header and a sentance ;).... cached pages are not up yet...
–BV2312
re: Hotmail spotted in the wild

@ BV2312 Even when looking at the cached pages, those posts weren't there.
–Jeremy Bost
re: Hotmail spotted in the wild

Thought i would let some people know the Hotmail Technical Support just blogged about the issues...
–BV2312
re: Hotmail spotted in the wild

i think we all have to be patient and be happy that microsoft didn't update all accounts...
–yanverm
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LiveSide - News blog

Hotmail spotted in the wild

Posted Sep 29 2008, 04:31 PM by Kip Kniskern with 35 comment(s)

Just as we suspected, once we posted on “where’s Hotmail”, we started getting reports of sightings.  Thanks to LiveSide reader Graeme (who is getting his website at www.bitsticks.com running, should be up soon) we have some screenshots:

After Login - Before Inbox

welcome screen

Flower Theme I Think

And Graeme was able to confirm one interesting little bit of news: Apparently Windows Live OneCare has replaced TrendMicro as the virus scanner for Hotmail:

hotmailonecare

In the old version, a Trend Micro logo would appear on mail, so it looks like the change has indeed taken place.

Also Frederick at Read Write Web has a nice little article up, unlike us he’s been able to play with the new Hotmail.  As soon as we get our hands on it we’ll have more.

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Attack Blogger wrote re: Hotmail spotted in the wild
on Mon, Sep 29 2008 5:19 PM

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.

natenovs wrote re: Hotmail spotted in the wild
on Mon, Sep 29 2008 5:22 PM

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

ChaosAngelic wrote re: Hotmail spotted in the wild
on Mon, Sep 29 2008 5:49 PM

@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.

BV2312 wrote re: Hotmail spotted in the wild
on Mon, Sep 29 2008 5:56 PM

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

tophtucker wrote re: Hotmail spotted in the wild
on Mon, Sep 29 2008 6:28 PM

"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? :-\

sushovande wrote re: Hotmail spotted in the wild
on Mon, Sep 29 2008 6:35 PM

OWA anyone?

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

Hb8 wrote re: Hotmail spotted in the wild
on Mon, Sep 29 2008 7:01 PM

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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on Mon, Sep 29 2008 7:34 PM

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Paulz0r wrote re: Hotmail spotted in the wild
on Mon, Sep 29 2008 8:21 PM

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.

jntowers wrote re: Hotmail spotted in the wild
on Mon, Sep 29 2008 9:02 PM

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.

stijnkoppelmans wrote re: Hotmail spotted in the wild
on Tue, Sep 30 2008 5:11 AM

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.

vdelvecchio wrote re: Hotmail spotted in the wild
on Tue, Sep 30 2008 6:43 AM

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

Pytt wrote re: Hotmail spotted in the wild
on Tue, Sep 30 2008 7:28 AM
BV2312 wrote re: Hotmail spotted in the wild
on Tue, Sep 30 2008 8:00 AM

@Pytt Thanks Pal!!

vdelvecchio wrote re: Hotmail spotted in the wild
on Tue, Sep 30 2008 8:25 AM

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

DN2004 wrote re: Hotmail spotted in the wild
on Tue, Sep 30 2008 8:46 AM

link works fien for me cool!

Jamie wrote re: Hotmail spotted in the wild
on Tue, Sep 30 2008 9:00 AM

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

SSP wrote re: Hotmail spotted in the wild
on Tue, Sep 30 2008 9:21 AM
DN2004 wrote re: Hotmail spotted in the wild
on Tue, Sep 30 2008 10:12 AM

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

BV2312 wrote re: Hotmail spotted in the wild
on Tue, Sep 30 2008 11:20 AM

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).....

yanverm wrote re: Hotmail spotted in the wild
on Tue, Sep 30 2008 12:18 PM

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... ;-)

BV2312 wrote re: Hotmail spotted in the wild
on Tue, Sep 30 2008 2:54 PM

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

Jeremy Bost wrote re: Hotmail spotted in the wild
on Tue, Sep 30 2008 4:52 PM

@ BV2312

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

BV2312 wrote re: Hotmail spotted in the wild
on Tue, Sep 30 2008 4:56 PM

@Jeremy

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

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on Tue, Sep 30 2008 9:06 PM

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

Hb8 wrote re: Hotmail spotted in the wild
on Wed, Oct 1 2008 12:24 PM

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.  

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