1. Security
The A-level security feature is finally here in Windows Live Hotmail.
It was there before, but only while “logging in” to save users
credentials from phishing attack. Now, HTTPS is coming in hotmail for
the entire session, i.e. for logging in and browsing (reading/sending)
emails.
This was something which Gmail already introduced a few months ago, but it’s good to have in Hotmail nonetheless.
2. View, Edit and Share Office Docs
Now you can access free Microsoft office web apps to view, edit and
share office documents without downloading it on your computer. All you
need to do is email any document or PowerPoint presentation to yourself.
You could open this document anytime, anywhere. Because the document is
present in Hotmail cloud, you don’t need your own computer to open it.
You can view your presentation or edit it in the Office web app.
After you save your changes, it automatically gets saved on Skydrive.
You could also run the slideshow without having Office installed in your
computer.
3. Real Time Document Collaboration
If you and your friend want to work on a same document at the same
time then you can do this easily in the new Hotmail. Click on the file,
which should be present on the Skydrive of the sender of the document,
to view it online. While editing the file, you can see the number of
persons editing the file at the bottom right hand corner. You can
instantly check changes made by the team members.
4. Edit And Reply
Suppose your friend sent a document to you which needs to be edited
and sent back. Normally you would download it on your computer, make
changes, attach it again and send back to him.
This whole process is time consuming. The new feature of Hotmail
allows you to edit the document online. Before editing, it automatically
copies the document in your Windows Live Skydrive account. The online
word version looks same as Microsoft word and it won’t affect the format
of document while you edit it (something which gives this a big edge
over Google Docs).
5. Send Huge Files
Integration of Hotmail with Skydrive makes it possible to send
up to 10 GB files in a single mail.
Well, kinda. The file is hosted on the Skydrive service which offers
you 25 GB of free space. When you send the large files (documents or
images) over email, the recipient only receives the URL of that file.
When the recipient clicks on the link he can download the file. It is
not necessary for recipient to have a Skydrive account in order to
download it.
6. Send And View Images
In the above given screenshot, you can notice the Photos button on
the left sidebar (between attachments and docs). It can be used to
attach large number of images in the mail.
All the images get uploaded to Skydrive and the recipient receives a
link. You can view an interactive slideshow of images, download them on
your computer (no Windows live ID required) and also add comments to
them (Windows live ID required).
7. One Click Filter
Some nice one click filter options have been introduced in the new
version of Hotmail which will allow you to filter emails with social
updates, emails from regular contacts and from groups easily.
8. Quick Views
Suppose you want to only check emails with images. You could quickly
filter those emails by clicking on the “Photos” link given on the left
pane. Similarly you can click on “Documents” to see all the mails with
attached documents.
9. Active Views
People send video links, Flickr images etc in the email. To watch
them, you need to open the link in a new tab or a window. But the new
Hotmail automatically recognizes the link, adds a description and
thumbnail, and lets you view the video right inside the email interface.
It will support YouTube and Hulu services to start with.
Similarly, you can view Flickr photos and even start a slideshow
within your inbox. It recognizes the tracking number of postal services
and displays all the details attached to it. Also, accept LinkedIn
friend requests without visiting the website.
10. Search Auto-Complete
To search mails effectively, Hotmail has included search
auto-complete feature. Just type few letters and it suggests you various
helpful terms automatically.
11. Conversation View
Suppose you had a conversation with your friends on some topic. This
conversation took place by sending emails back and forth between
different people. Now you want to view all those conversations at one
place. It’s possible in Hotmail with the new “conversation” view.
Click on “Arrange By” button given on the right (below search box)
and choose “conversation” from the drop down. It will show you the whole
conversation. When you read the message, it displays the whole
conversation history along with date and time.
12. Sweep
You can manage the inbox clutter using this feature. Suppose you
receive a daily newsletter which you don’t need it. All you need to do
is check the mail, click on “Sweep” button and choose Move all from or
Delete all from.
If you want to move all the newsletters to other folder so that you
can view them later then select the option “Move all from”. You can also
select the option “Also move future mails” to confirm that in future
you’ll not receive any email newsletter from the same company in your
inbox.
13. Remove Spam
Hotmail divides the spam mails in two categories, “Spam” and “Grey
mail” (newsletters and marketing promotions). Hotmail’s new spam
filtering system, which is based on IP address filtering, works
tremendously well (as they claim). Wave 4 spam management system is an
upcoming feature of new Hotmail.
It works on the user interaction with the email. If user regularly
puts an email in trash without reading it then Hotmail comes to know
that the particular kind of mail is in the grey mail category and it
blocks them in future.
14. IM and Text Messaging From Inbox
You can now chat with your friends right inside the Hotmail
interface. You can see your friends on the left pane. Also you can see
their status colors which can tell that they are free, busy or idle.
Click on the name of your friend to start the chat. If you click on
the name of your other friend, unlike Gmail, a new tab is added to the
chat window, saving space. Right click on the name of your Friend to
send text SMS to their phone.
15. Exchange ActiveSync
If you use your phone to view your email then you can take advantage
of Hotmail Activesync feature. It helps you to sync the email, calendar
and contacts between your phone and the web. It means whatever changes
you make on your mail (read, delete mail) will automatically appear on
the web. It is same as
IMAP
feature.
16. Hotmail Highlights
It saves your time by allowing you to see the mails you received from
your contacts, various social media update notifications, flagged
content and birthdates of your friends, just after you log into your
account.
If you click on the category title (ex. “From contacts”), you will
see the filtered view of your inbox having only emails from your
contacts. Similarly you can click on other category titles to switch to
them easily.
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http://www.guidingtech.com/3462/new-windows-live-hotmail-features/