webDotWiz Online has a Space: Windows Live Hotmail

Live.com.au addresses now available for your Windows Live ID

Tue, 06 Nov 2007 21:33:46 GMT

Go to mail.live.com and sign up for a new account.

You'll see that the first option for a new Live ID is your-username@live.com.au.

Outlook users - get access to your Live Hotmail using Outlook Connector

Mon, 18 Jun 2007 10:59:46 GMT

Outlook users (both 2003 and 2007 versions) can now access their Windows Live Hotmail account(s), whether free or paid, from within Outlook using the Outlook Connector.

Outlook Connector (currently in trial form) can be downloaded from here.

Windows Live Hotmail free users get access to email, folders and contacts from within Outlook. Premium Hotmail users also get access to their Windows Live Calendar from within Outlook.

For lots of help, see Use a Windows Live Hotmail account in Outlook at Microsoft Office Online.

Via the Windows Live Hotmail team Space.

Technorati tags: Microsoft Outlook 2003, Microsoft Outlook 2007, Windows Live Hotmail

Windows Live Hotmail offical release this week?

Mon, 16 Apr 2007 11:19:38 GMT

Liveside are surmising that Windows Live Hotmail will be released in its final version later this week, i.e., no more Windows Live Hotmail Beta, just plain ol' Windows Live Hotmail and everybody will have the latest.

It's important to note how Windows Live Mail has come about in this age of blogs and users being able to give feedback directly to the developers:

Our thanks to the Kahuna/Windows Live Mail/Windows Live Hotmail beta team for putting on a beta the way they're meant to be: open, inclusive, fun, and flexible. No other beta has been as responsive to user requests, as open to feedback, or as willing to expose a work in progress in order to get the best out of beta testers, and out of Windows Live Hotmail. Congratulations!

Official name is Windows Live Hotmail

Sat, 31 Mar 2007 01:14:09 GMT

Those of us trying out the new generation version of Hotmail have been calling it Windows Live Mail.

However the tens of millions who haven't been part of the testing cycle have preferred that the veteran Hotmail title stay around for more years - and that's good.

So the next generation of Hotmail is now officially called Windows Live Hotmail.

Footnote: it's now easier to ask people questions such as "Have you checked your Hotmail?" rather than trying to remember if they were new users of Live Mail ("Have you checked your Live Mail?") or users who'd swapped over from Hotmail to Live Mail ("Have you checked your Hotmail, er... your Live Mail?").