Windows Live Hotmail launches in Belgium and India

re: Windows Live Hotmail launches in Belgium and India

sgvdciphan — Fri, 27 Apr 2007 22:20:54 GMT

I've been using the WLMail Desktop program, and I've probably got mixed feelings about it. I hate that I've had to hit the delete button multiple times within the "Unread messages" section, just to delete ONE MESSAGE! But other than that, it's alright with me.

re: Windows Live Hotmail launches in Belgium and India

Akos — Fri, 20 Apr 2007 00:38:15 GMT

Hotmail has launched today in Hungary, too. Everything is the same, just the word beta is gone. And there is no @live.com :(

re: Windows Live Hotmail launches in Belgium and India

DavidK — Thu, 19 Apr 2007 06:46:50 GMT

I AM paying for it, so the calendar thing is really starting to bug me, I want the new one NOW! They'll make me cry before long, I can't stand using the Google calendar :(

re: Windows Live Hotmail launches in Belgium and India

zlinko — Wed, 18 Apr 2007 23:02:26 GMT

I would pay for Hotmail again if I knew the ads would be gone and I had a decent calendar.

re: Windows Live Hotmail launches in Belgium and India

yanverm — Wed, 18 Apr 2007 01:21:11 GMT

Did you now you can now send mail attachments up to 120 MB with live hotmail plus? I saw it today on the new Belgian/Dutch pages of http://get.live.com/mailplus/features .

Greets!

re: Windows Live Hotmail launches in Belgium and India

the andyman — Tue, 17 Apr 2007 22:47:52 GMT

It makes sense to me to have a gradual rollout of WLH as they are doing, starting off with smaller markets/countries to make sure that it goes smoothly (they must have learnt something from the problems faced during the "test" launch in the Netherlands).

If you consider how long it has been taking for the upgrades to the past few milestones to be implemented on different servers just for current testers then imagine how much work and is involved in upgrading whole nationalities of users.

re: Windows Live Hotmail launches in Belgium and India

Darren Straight — Tue, 17 Apr 2007 17:07:32 GMT

@deltrey: Well at one point they were going to be released on the 20th June 2006 but then some problems arose and they were postponed, later on in November @live.nl domains became available, but still no @live.com domains, that was until not lng after the release of @live.nl did people find ways (hacks) of registering other @live domains, Microsoft blocked these little backdoors but then another way was found of registering them, that was again blocked. And well since then theres been no sign of @live.com / @windowslive.com email addresses coming out.

The US (not sure about canada) launch of Windows Live Hotmail is planned for possible the second week in May so will see if they are available then. :)

re: Windows Live Hotmail launches in Belgium and India

deltrey — Tue, 17 Apr 2007 16:44:58 GMT

"And no, @live email accounts are not yet available to register for these regions :("

So maybe i'm late in the game. But can you get an @live.com email address in Canada yet? Because I can't seem to find a way to register for one.

I thought these @live.com address's were supposed to be available for month ago. What's the story?

cheers

re: Windows Live Hotmail launches in Belgium and India

yanverm — Tue, 17 Apr 2007 15:06:01 GMT

"Aho", you're not missing a great thing... It's just the same as the M10 update, just the word "beta" is gone... But it's id cool when you can say you're using the "final & official" live hotmail edition :-)

Greets from Belgium ;-)

Yannick

re: Windows Live Hotmail launches in Belgium and India

aho — Tue, 17 Apr 2007 06:39:50 GMT

I can't wait for this to launch in England!

re: Windows Live Hotmail launches in Belgium and India

Chris — Tue, 17 Apr 2007 05:23:29 GMT

Thanks, I've clarified the post a bit to show that. I meant the new regions :)

re: Windows Live Hotmail launches in Belgium and India

jerone — Tue, 17 Apr 2007 05:06:02 GMT

"And no, @live email accounts are not yet available to register for these regions :("

When setting your language to Dutch, you can register for a @live.nl account.

re: Windows Live Hotmail launches in Belgium and India

jerone — Tue, 17 Apr 2007 05:00:02 GMT

Also The Netherlands (next to Belgium) has gone out of beta.