February 7, 2009
1:03 am
Windows Live Hotmail: Wave 3 update begins; POP3 coming!
The Hotmail team announced of rolling out worldwide, the latest Wave 3 update of Windows Live Hotmail. Here are the new features coming in this update:
- More storage in Hotmail. Start with 5 GB, and watch your storage grow, as you need it.
- More themes in Hotmail (including some that change based on time of day or weather)
- The top banner ad moved to the side. So you can see more messages
- Quickly add maps, directions, movie times and more to e-mail messages. It makes planning a night out so much easier. (UK and US-only, for the moment)
- See “what’s new” updates from people in your network on Hotmail’s Today page.
- Get Hotmail on your mobile phone’s e-mail program. POP3 access is becoming available to Hotmail users in the US and Brazil, in addition to United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, France, Japan, Spain, Germany, Italy, and the Netherlands.
- Create e-mail signatures in HTML. Get as fancy as you want to be.
- The People page has been re-organized.
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