Windows Live Hotmail M10 begins rollout

Windows Live Hotmail launches in Belgium and India

LiveSide - News blog — Tue, 17 Apr 2007 04:10:23 GMT

Its been coming for a while but finally some action - Windows Live Hotmail has just been launched in

Windows Live Hotmail launches in Beligum and India

LiveSide - News blog — Tue, 17 Apr 2007 04:06:15 GMT

Its been coming for a while but finally some action - Windows Live Hotmail has just been launched in

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ap501 — Thu, 05 Apr 2007 15:47:17 GMT

Bay 119 has been upgraded.

One welcome change is the return of the "New" option, which enables you to begin a new email from anywhere within the program, instead of being forced to first return to "Mail", as was the case with M9.

Change to 4gb will likely lure a lot of GMail and YahooMail users.

I've had numerous colleagues switch once they realized it's light-years ahead of the Hotmail they remember -- and that was on M8 and M9!

Windows Live Hotmail Plus mailboxes go to 4GB

LiveSide - News blog — Thu, 05 Apr 2007 05:10:32 GMT

Along with recent news of Windows Live Hotmail being updated to M10 and talk of it being released in

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Matthew — Tue, 03 Apr 2007 10:41:16 GMT

I've been on bay117 and was upgraded tonight to Hotmail M10. The text is different, Verdana, and the wideness is a little annoying to me.

@Matthew

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tophtucker — Tue, 03 Apr 2007 10:06:14 GMT

I've been upgraded now...

I agree, I don't like the new placement of the Today/Mail/Contacts/Calendar navigation. That was better in M9. And isn't it about time that Calendar get upgraded?

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Zaarin — Tue, 03 Apr 2007 09:38:57 GMT

bay 117 has been upgraded

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Chris — Sat, 31 Mar 2007 17:33:07 GMT

Nico: Messenger integration in WL Hotmail is the same as regular Hotmail. If you are using IE it will show the status of your buddies (Similar to WLMd). We mentioned the audio player too previously, but didn't say much about it.

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sxmangel — Sat, 31 Mar 2007 10:03:45 GMT

I've been running M10 on bay 124 for about a week or so. Hate the name but I like it overall

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ChrisW — Fri, 30 Mar 2007 21:55:47 GMT

bay 124 is also running M10.

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bf1977 — Fri, 30 Mar 2007 19:54:37 GMT

agree to the Legion and I say more. The Microsoft must not have changed the name of the Windows Live Mail for Windows Live Hotmail. If I have an email of the Hotmail or of the MSN, the change of the name would be correct. But if I have the email of Live.com, must have continued as Windows Live Mail. The problem is that the Microsoft did not make the change of the site of entrance for the Windows Live Mail and one I specify for who uses the email of the Hotmail \ MSN. Perhaps either therefore that some, had not obtained to see that they were two services with different names. Guilt of the Microsoft for the confusion in the head of some users.

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nico — Fri, 30 Mar 2007 06:25:29 GMT

Is there messenger integration in m10? The only account i have that was upgraded has no contacts in, i saw it in this article it has: http://www.pcmag.com/slideshow_viewer/0,1205,l=203771&s=1489&a=203711&po=2,00.asp

also have you reported about the audio player, i only discovered it today, it was news to me... http://img126.imageshack.us/img126/7118/mp3playervt7.jpg

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tardisinc — Fri, 30 Mar 2007 04:28:04 GMT

Just got upgraded.

Initial load time went from 8-12 seconds to 2-5 seconds. It's now around as fast as Gmail.

On the other hand, I vastly preferred the way you switched between Inbox, Today and Contacts in M9. M10 is ugly, and less intuitive (even if clearer).

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Harrison Hoffman — Fri, 30 Mar 2007 02:54:49 GMT

Legion, your bay number can be found in the url when you're logged into mail.live.com.

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Legion — Fri, 30 Mar 2007 01:43:24 GMT

I have no idea how to check which "bay" I'm in. (Never even heard the term until this article.) But I still have to STRENUOUSLY protest that this rebranding is unnecessary and even counterproductive.

Then again, and by way of explanation, I'm a writer by profession. Writing, whether fiction or non-fiction, novels to advertising copy *to branding*, has one virtue above all others: brevity.

Windows Live Mail = more virtuous than Windows Live Hotmail. Then again, Hotmail = more virtuous than Windows Live Mail. What we have here is either a case of 3 unnecessary letters or 11 unnecessary letters, and for Microsoft to transition into a new era online, the Windows Live ought to stay. Ditch the "Hot" from Windows Live Mail. Hotmail was great; it's time to MOVE FORWARD.