Active Views were introduced to Hotmail last year to allow links to Flickr, YouTube, and Hulu to be viewed without ever having to leave your inbox. Instead, the content shows up within the e-mail ...

On Monday I shared my first impressions of Microsoft’s updated Hotmail, their free, web-based email service. Today I go into a little more detail about what is, and isn’t, possible in Hotmail. On ...

What can Hotmail offer over a certain emerging webmail standard? A good bit, it turns out. Windows Live Hotmail now offers inbox-cleaning Sweep and filter functions, Exchange support, direct Office ...

Although still one of the leading webmail services, Microsoft’s Hotmail has fallen behind its competitor Gmail in terms of innovation but a big redesign is on the way that will reinvent it and make it ...

— -- AOL's famous "You've Got Mail" catchphrase seems so quaint these days, left over from a not-too-distant era when e-mailing felt relatively novel and fresh. That's not to suggest that e-mail ...

Microsoft recently announced a new feature that lets you create and maintain multiple phony Hotmail addresses from your main Hotmail account. The new alias service lets you create up to five different ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Microsoft has revamped its Hotmail browser-based email service in time for Office 2010 and the official ...

Microsoft's Hotmail has been around for a long, long time. The original web mail service, it's still the world's most popular. Even so, it’s been looking a little long in the tooth for a while – ...