New Hotmail look with ever-growing storage

Personal February 19th, 2009

Windows Live Hotmail has announced three new features for their hotmail services today. The improvements list as below screenshot :

hotmail improvements

You will have more room for storing messages
The banner ads at above has been removed and moved to the right side of the screen. When you are in the homepage screen, the banner ads is a 300 x 300 size but when you are in the inbox, the banner ads become 160 x 600 size which makes the ads every easy to notice by the user and clicking on the ads now is more promising.

The ever-growing storage message for your inbox
Hotmail is already offering 5GB mailbox size and now it has new ever-growing storage message. This is very rewarding when your inbox size growing surprisingly, Windows Live Hotmail will notify you by sending an email asking you to slow down and move your emails to other places such as your desktop. The feature increase the space available as what you needed.

Other New Features…

Loading faster than before 70%
Now, you will experience faster loading when using Windows Live Hotmail service.

Better spam protection
They claim that their spam protection technology can block almost 80% of spam messages. I guess the amount is exactly true which mean every 10 emails your receive, 2 of the emails are spam. Their spam detection feature has increase compare to last time.

Coming Soon…

Access other email services like GMail, Yahoo!PlusMail and AOL via Hotmail
You can see and manage all other emails inside your Windows Live Hotmail now but this feature is not yet available. It is available in the future as mention by them.

IM in your inbox
GMail has this feature already since long ago. Now, they said they will put IM inside your inbox. What happen to those important offline messages? Do this feature still retains in the upcoming release?