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 ...

For over a year now, email deliverability experts have been talking about the 'fact' that ISPs use engagement metrics (typically not defined by these so-called experts) to determine inbox placement.

Back in the days before Gmail, webmail on the Internet was really, really bad. Inboxes were limited to 10 or 20 megabytes, interfaces were slow and ugly, and the experience simply didn’t come close to ...

Hotmail users will soon see a new version of the webmail service roll out to their accounts, as Microsoft set out to rid our email accounts of “greymail”. The update includes categories and more ...

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 – ...

— -- 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 has announced that users can now send and receive e-mail from a non-Hotmail address using Windows Live Hotmail. The feature, called EASI ID, is rolling out today and will be available ...

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 ...