August 6, 2010 at 16:45Overview of the new Hotmail
More recently, Hotmail has pleased more than 360 million users with a new interface and expanded functionality. The development team worked wonderfully, revising many aspects of the service. A lot of pictures and a minimum of marketing under the cut.
To begin with, the first thing that catches your eye is the interface. Without fundamentally changing, he became more pleasant and intuitive:
Major changes have affected mail sorting functionality. Those who use the mail know that before the opportunities were at the most basic level. Now you can sort letters not only by date, sender, subject and size. But also filter them by trivial signs:
Sort by the presence of pictures, office documents in the letter:
Create rules and folders:
I also remind you that the drag-n-drop function works to transfer letters from the Inbox folder.
A grouping of letters on the subject of the letter also appeared. This functionality is disabled by default but is easily enabled from the main interface.
In the new version of Hotmail, the integration of instant messaging service (implemented through Windows Live Messenger) has become more convenient:
The fashion for integrating with social networks has not spared the new Hotmail - it has become more convenient to work with Facebook, LinkedIn, MySpace. Now you can add friends with one click directly from the letter.
In my opinion, the main innovation of the postal service is active viewing - right in the body of the letter you can watch the received pictures in a slide show.
If you were sent a link to Flickr or YouTube, then instead of the link you can view pictures and videos directly from the letter in full screen format
In October, Russia will integrate Office Web Apps (applications for working with Office documents through a browser) with Hotmail, which will allow you to open documents that came to Hotmail immediately in Office Web Apps in a browser, edit them and send them as a link back via Hotmail . Office Web Apps is already integrated with SkyDrive. Now you can create documents, edit, collaborate and save to SkyDrive online storage. All these actions can now be performed without the presence of the installed Office package on the computer.
Now let's talk about the size of the box and the size of the letters sent.
In Hotmail, the size of the mailbox increases automatically as it is full. From October (in Russia) the maximum size of the sent message will be 10 GB (the size of each attached file is up to 50 MB). This will happen through the SkyDrive online storage, in which you do not need to upload anything in advance - this will be done automatically when downloading files to a letter. The recipient will receive a link to view files that he can view directly in his letter, as well as to download them. This will allow not to overflow the recipient's box.
PS Thank you OrdJONY for the amendment :)
Interface
To begin with, the first thing that catches your eye is the interface. Without fundamentally changing, he became more pleasant and intuitive:
Mail sorting
Major changes have affected mail sorting functionality. Those who use the mail know that before the opportunities were at the most basic level. Now you can sort letters not only by date, sender, subject and size. But also filter them by trivial signs:
Sort by the presence of pictures, office documents in the letter:
Create rules and folders:
I also remind you that the drag-n-drop function works to transfer letters from the Inbox folder.
A grouping of letters on the subject of the letter also appeared. This functionality is disabled by default but is easily enabled from the main interface.
Chat
In the new version of Hotmail, the integration of instant messaging service (implemented through Windows Live Messenger) has become more convenient:
Social networks
The fashion for integrating with social networks has not spared the new Hotmail - it has become more convenient to work with Facebook, LinkedIn, MySpace. Now you can add friends with one click directly from the letter.
View pictures and videos
In my opinion, the main innovation of the postal service is active viewing - right in the body of the letter you can watch the received pictures in a slide show.
If you were sent a link to Flickr or YouTube, then instead of the link you can view pictures and videos directly from the letter in full screen format
Office
In October, Russia will integrate Office Web Apps (applications for working with Office documents through a browser) with Hotmail, which will allow you to open documents that came to Hotmail immediately in Office Web Apps in a browser, edit them and send them as a link back via Hotmail . Office Web Apps is already integrated with SkyDrive. Now you can create documents, edit, collaborate and save to SkyDrive online storage. All these actions can now be performed without the presence of the installed Office package on the computer.
Drawer volume
Now let's talk about the size of the box and the size of the letters sent.
In Hotmail, the size of the mailbox increases automatically as it is full. From October (in Russia) the maximum size of the sent message will be 10 GB (the size of each attached file is up to 50 MB). This will happen through the SkyDrive online storage, in which you do not need to upload anything in advance - this will be done automatically when downloading files to a letter. The recipient will receive a link to view files that he can view directly in his letter, as well as to download them. This will allow not to overflow the recipient's box.
PS Thank you OrdJONY for the amendment :)