Hotmail in line for major revamp
Microsoft’s webmail service Hotmail is in line for a major revamp with upgrades to its spam filters, security and performance.
Journalists are being invited to attend a press event on October 3 where Microsoft will invite attendees to “forget everything you thought you knew about Hotmail,” before unveiling the new-look service.
The webmail market has been stagnant since 2004 when Google shook things up with Gmail, offering consumers increased inbox size limits, more accurate search functionality and threading of extended exchanges into “conversations”.
Microsoft have responded by allowing users to share hundreds of photos per email without attachments, edit office documents direct from the inbox, sort and delete emails automatically and embed YouTube videos directly within emails.
Web based emails are currently dominated by three main providers; Microsoft’s Hotmail, Google Gmail and Yahoo Mail.
Hotmail was hit by a major service failure over the weekend when millions of users were unable to access its services.