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Windows Live Hotmail: M10

Slimy   on 03 April 2007 - 17:16 · 8 comments & 4647 views

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Windows Live Mail has hit its latest milestone update, M10, and with it, Microsoft’s e-mail service has been renamed to Windows Live Hotmail, in an effort to keep the familiar Hotmail branding. Microsoft started rolling out M10 to certain users on March 22 but today seems to be the day Microsoft chose to release it to the masses. However, if you still haven’t got it, the reason is: “we're deploying it slowly to users because we have so many users now. That way, if there's a problem with the release, fewer users will be affected by the problem. This is a pretty common practice for web software these days,” according to Ellie Powers-Boyle, program manager.

In M10, switching between the classic and full versions can be done on the Today page (beneath the storage meter), the inbox (bottom), and of course in options. The full M10 version includes a customizable (colour and style) reading pane, drag and drop functionality, keyboard shortcuts, WLMessenger integration and so on. The classic version now has spell check, the Photo upload control, Bi-Directional language support (for Arabic and Hebrew users) and improvements to the safety bar. In general, M10 is supposedly faster and more reliable. There are some other more subtle changes here and there (fonts, button placement etc.), but that’s the general idea. See the link below for more details.

Link: Forum Discussion

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(3 replies) #1 kizzaaa on 03 Apr 2007 - 17:54
I prefer the fonts from the last milestone.
#1.1 speedy_kevin on 03 Apr 2007 - 18:03
I prefer this font. Looks cleaner.

With a new email from a unknown sender you could allow sender or display images seperately. This is gone..? Too bad
#1.2 PureLegend on 03 Apr 2007 - 18:34
I hate the new font, it's wumbo.
#1.3 lylesback2 on 03 Apr 2007 - 20:32
Quote - (kizzaaa said @ #1)
I prefer the fonts from the last milestone.

the font stands out so much more.. i like the new one.

people don't get use to change
#2 wilbert on 03 Apr 2007 - 18:44
Why have they done nothing with the calendar?
#3 Purple Haze on 04 Apr 2007 - 01:01
New font sucks, but I'll get used to it I guess.
(1 reply) #4 DaViD_BRaNDoN on 04 Apr 2007 - 10:15
What's the font name being used on WLH M10?
#4.1 Glassed Silver on 04 Apr 2007 - 18:06
view the source code and find out xD

Glassed Silver:mac

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