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 ...

One of the problems with using a Web-based email service like Hotmail is the lack of new email notifications if you don't have your inbox open in your Web browser. To receive alerts for new email, use ...

What can Hotmail offer over a certain emerging webmail standard? A good bit, it turns out. Windows Live Hotmail now offers inbox-cleaning Sweep and filter functions, Exchange support, direct Office ...

I'm constantly reminded how slow email actually is. On the homescreen of one of my smartphones, I've got the official Twitter widget and the official Facebook widget which are pretty much constantly ...

Daily deals, social networking alerts, and email newsletters. Sure, you might have agreed to receive them, but if your email inbox is your digital workbench, do you really want all that stuff sitting ...

Ever wished you could have multiple email addresses that all routed to the same inbox, without having to set up a bunch of different accounts and forwarding options? Hotmail — yes, the email service ...

Hotmail released a new feature that will let you create multiple email addresses under the same account. This is a huge move catering to people who set up several email addresses to handle a variety ...