hot mail

“Simple is better”…..thats how we can describe ‘Hot mail’.

Hot mail remained online since july 1996 but till now they always been simple but very innovative, usefull, professional, throughout there journey to serve their service to approx. 364 million users world wide. When it comes to number of users they are serving hot mail rank first, even it available in apprx 36 languages.

Hotmail was launched in 1996 by Mr. Sabeer Bhatia & Mr. Jack Smith and it was one of the first web mail service. In Dec 1997 hot mail was sold to Microsoft. It was also know as 'MSN Hotmail' and 'Windows live mail'.

Simplicity of hot mail begins from its homepage. They have very simple looking homepage having just 9 links on the page. The tag line of hot mail describes everything about it….. “The efficient way to do email” Microsoft believe in giving maximum productivity in minimum time!!!

Hot mail loaded with many user friendly great features. Microsoft highlighted them as

· Fight spam with Microsoft Smart Screen technology

· Manage your email accounts in one place

· Access your email from your mobile phone

Features of Hot mail:-

· Hot provides Keyboard control which gives ability to user to navigate on page without using mouse.

· Search the users messages using structured query syntax like “from:hubpages”

· Provides message filters

· Organizing messages in different folders

· Active view of hot mail

· Integration of office web application

Registration with Hot/Live mail!!

Once you register your user name you can pick up one domain, either 'Hotmail.com' or 'live.com'

Active View

This is a great function of hot mail…..in active view users can ‘Preview’ any attachment right from their inbox. For example, users may view the YouTube video within Hotmail when a user receives an email which contains a link to the video.

(This can be more useful when we use it to store our video, mp3 files and photos)

Integration of office web application:

This is one more helpful feature of hot mail…..it allow to view & edit power point, word excel document directly from hot mail.

Save time and get more!!

With hot mail one can send attachments up to 10 GB. We can also connect with other social networking site like facebook, LinkedIn, Flickr, and YouTube without leaving inbox.

Managing all email in one place!!

This also help us to save time .....we can Set up Windows Live Hotmail to access multiple email accounts, like Gmail, AOL Mail, and Yahoo! Mail. Then, one can send and receive email from all of these accounts right in Hotmail—and get more done in less time.

Quick view!!

With the help of quick view feature one can able to 'Filter' all emails in all folder by document attachments, photo attachments, flagged massages etc....

Sweep!!

Hotmail offers a "virtual broom" which allow users to delete or move large amounts emails into specified folders based on the sender's information. Once a "sweep" is performed, the user may choose to configure Hotmail to remember the sweep settings and perform the same move or delete actions for any future email.

EAS-Exchange active Sync.

It is now easier to be productive and to be up to date on phone using Hot mail EAS.

you can get your email, calendar, and contacts pushed automatically to your phone using Exchange ActiveSync (EAS). EAS keeps everything in sync between your phone and Hotmail, so whatever you do on your phone, like delete an email, add an appointment, or update one of your contacts with a new number, will also be reflected on the web, and vice-versa.

For more detail visit EAS